How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google Analytics

Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by chinathrow on Monday December 26, 2016 @08:26PM (#13260708)

I deal with this Vitaly on a daily base.

Google failed to block him for months - it would be so easy though. He hits / on my sites but we never ever serve Google Analytics in this URL, only from /<lang>. Hence all IPs logging pageviews on / are 100% spam. No false positives.

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Re:How Referral Spam Like lifehacker.com Gets into Google An... by thewhitetulip on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @12:47AM (#13261522)

Yes, the last time I have his spam is Dec 23, and it changes the text, the o-o-o-h shell and vitaly etc etc Google's failure to block the spam is huge considering all the money they make is via adverts and having GA is critical to their $$$

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