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 @08:50PM (#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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