Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics
by iDemonix on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:01AM
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If I send a manual PATCH of {"source":"referral-spam-here.com"}, obviously it makes it in to my metrics.
It seems like someone could just scan for sites with a site ID matching your format, then a quick burst of 100 PATCH requests and you're now experiencing the same stuff that makes Google Analytics so painful to use.
Do you have any plans to combat stuff like this? This is typically my biggest gripe with analytics platforms, the spam can make them unusable and is hard to protect against.
It seems like someone could just scan for sites with a site ID matching your format, then a quick burst of 100 PATCH requests and you're now experiencing the same stuff that makes Google Analytics so painful to use.
Do you have any plans to combat stuff like this? This is typically my biggest gripe with analytics platforms, the spam can make them unusable and is hard to protect against.