How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics

Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by nodesocket on Monday December 26, 2016 @04:27PM (#13259849)

I had also gotten absolutely swamped in Google Analytics with things like:

  Language:
    Secret.ɢoogle.com You are invited! Enter only with this ticket URL. Copy it. Vote for Trump!
    o-o-8-o-o.com search shell is much better than google!
    Vitaly rules google *:｡゜ﾟ･*ヽ(^ᴗ^)ﾉ*･゜ﾟ｡:* ¯\_(ツ)_/¯(ಠ益ಠ)(ಥ‿ಥ)(ʘ‿ʘ)ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)ヽ(ﾟДﾟ)ﾉʕ•̫͡•ʔᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ(=^ ^=)oO
    Google officially recommends o-o-8-o-o.com search shell!

However, I recently applied the following account level filter and seems to have helped a ton. I can't guarantee this will 100% work, but it has certainly helped.

http://imgur.com/a/z9gSg

EDIT: Here is the regex so you can copy and paste it:

  \s[^\s]*\s|.{15,}|\.|,

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by chinathrow on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:50PM (#13260776)

I see the same spam. At this point I think the filtering by the average GA user base costs Google way more CPU cycles than an overall firewall ruleset.

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by nodesocket on Monday December 26, 2016 @09:16PM (#13260872)

Wait a day. The filter only affects traffic after it was applied.

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