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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics by aembleton on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @11:55AM (#18025116)
I see what you mean https://simpleanalytics.io/adriaan.io
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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics by donaltroddyn on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:01PM (#18025158)
Some people are taking advantage of this to leave messages for us: https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io

Edit: It seems to have been filtered now, but people were using spoofed referer headers to leave offensive messages for HN users.

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Re:Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics by whylo on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @12:06PM (#18025202)
Yeah, I saw that too. Someone tested for XSS in the referer too (<script> tag) but luckily it was escaped
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