Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
by trustfundbaby on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:10PM
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I don't see any reason for the guy to lie. He could just have not responded, or quietly changed the code, but he came to the blog and posted a publicly viewable comment about it ... maybe his diagnosis is wrong and something different is happening, but I'm very willing to believe it was an honest mistake given the circumstances.
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Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
by ternaryoperator on Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:01AM
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I don't think he's lying, but I do think he's mistaken. They probably do generate random codes, but this was not one of them. It looks/smells like a copy/paste.
That aside, though, why not just create a different Google Analytics account and use that one consistently for testing?
Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
by deletes on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:50AM
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This is exactly the reason they responded. By changing the code quietly, they would implicate themselves. An official PR statement like this is obligatory.
What is more probable, that they a lying, or that the random generator generated not a single code that matched, which is very(!) improbable by itself, but two codes that belong to the same account, generated at the same iteration.
Re:MLB.com is using my Google Analytics code
by paulgb on Thursday March 27, 2014 @05:24AM
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This is not an official PR statement, it's an engineer responding at 11 PM (MLB is based on the east coast) with the information he/she had available. I don't think there's an intent to decieve here, just a mistaken guess of the probabilities involved. Hanlon's razor applies.
He has no idea that his team is a bunch of lazy outsourcers. He knows, he is just confused.