MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code

Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by dalek2point3 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:26PM (#7477953)

I wrote an example for graduate students in the US to create a webpage and directed them to look at my webpage for an example template. Now they all copy my analytics tracking code, and I have like tens of student websites that I'm tracking me. It annoys me. I think we should have some sort of two-way authentication or atleast a way to "mute" certain domains or only whitelist certain domains in the reporting side of GA. Perhaps it exists?

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by thejosh on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:29PM (#7477964)

Seriously Google, unless the domain == example.com , don't show it by default.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by rduchnik on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:40PM (#7478019)

Actually it's so you can track multiple domain with one code. I do this with subdomains so that I can see all my traffic as well as by individual subdomain.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by thejosh on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:58PM (#7478085)

Hello User #1122111, we see you are trying to track potatoes.example.com , would you like to show this?

Y/N

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by diminoten on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:00AM (#7478517)

It probably doesn't come up all that often.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by thejosh on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:46AM (#7478658)

Great, which means most users will never see the message when someone adds their tracking code.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by diminoten on Thursday March 27, 2014 @07:07PM (#7484135)

It doesn't happen that much, so "most users" is going to not be very many users.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by yeukhon on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @10:08PM (#7478129)

I thought they asked for verification. Or was it only for webmaster tool?

And even so I supposed after the verification step the code is active so anyone could use it. Does GA code ever expire?

Sounds like an expiration date would be a reasonable solution plus a way for the account holder to deactivate the code from admin panel.

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by aj37 on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:36PM (#7478004)

You can set-up a hostname filter in the admin section of GA. Best to do this in a separate view so that you can still access unfiltered data if you ever need to do so

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by jrockway on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @09:29PM (#7477969)

I don't really know anything about Google Analytics, but this seems relevant:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/Cln...

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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code by ApolloRising on Thursday March 27, 2014 @12:12AM (#7478557)

You can use the method I specified above to fix your issue.

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