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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by hbcondo714 on Monday December 26, 2016 @05:39PM (#13260151)
No, the referal spam never hits the website. It instead goes straight to GA.
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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by soared on Monday December 26, 2016 @07:27PM (#13260522)
hbcondo714 is correct, nothing every actually touches your website. Its send with the measurement protocol, which allows you to POST data straight to GA.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by klenwell on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:14PM (#13261055)
This is the detail that the article seemed to miss. Or did I miss it?
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