Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
by richbradshaw on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:30AM
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Set up 2 GA accounts, then in your embed give even IP addresses version 1, and odd ones version 2, then you can track 20M pageviews. Admittedly it's a little rubbish. Guess you could use the API to combine them again for your own backend use.
Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
by ceejayoz on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:06PM
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Clients aren't huge fans of the "check both of these accounts and sum them together" approach, and ours like direct access so the API isn't a great solution.
I've heard that running a $10/month AdWords campaign gets you higher caps, but it may be an internet old wives tale.
Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
by dangayle on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @02:47PM
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Hate to burst your bubble, but even the premium GA uses samples. They don't give you a firehose of real data.
Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
by ceejayoz on Thursday December 12, 2013 @01:17PM
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Some of the reports, yes, but not overall pageviews. Per their capabilities page:
> 1 billion hits per month
> Up to 3 million rows of data in unsampled reports
If you're doing conversion tracking etc. you're going to start getting sampled data at some point, but it's the pageviews our folks care for.
Right now, once you hit 10M pageviews a month you either have to sample or pay $150k/year for Premium.
I don't need support, an account manager, four-hour turnaround on data, an SLA, etc. I just need more pageviews sometimes.