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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by HNaTTY on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:11PM (#10474739)
> (legitimate visits, obviously)

That's an important point; I'm seeing referral spam in my GA reports which I never noticed before 2015. I manually discount it when compiling reports, and my understanding is that these spammers hit GA UAs at random without even loading your website.

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by snowwrestler on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:57PM (#10475004)
It's incredible easy to filter this out in GA. Just set a filter or segment that only counts traffic from your known hostnames.
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