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Re:Show HN: Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics by StefanoC on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @05:33AM (#19253264)
Interesting, do you know if they rely on the same principle of using several domains, making it harder to block?
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Re:Show HN: Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics by tex5 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @10:14AM (#19254886)
I'm not sure, it uses your own domain, thus www.google-analytics.com becomes yourdomain.com/analytics.js. Not all requests are proxied, only the ones blocked by adblockers.

Taking this further, you could have your server send an event to GA when /index.html is requested, this can even be from tail -f access_log. No one will know GA was requested.

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Re:Show HN: Bypassing ad blockers for Google Analytics by rbinv on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:24AM (#19255606)
In general, you wouldn't be able to access third-party cookies this way, though.
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