This is pretty much in line with what I observed a few days ago when my post[1] reached the top of the front page here.
Google Analytics reports 10k uniques vs. 35k in Netlify's server-side analytics.
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Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#202I expected these numbers to be higher. However, an even more interesting metric is the 88% block in Firefox. Firefox may not have a great market share, but based on these numbers it's market share may very well be eight times higher than your analytics report. This can change the argument of "it's only 3% of our users so we don't need to test on FF" to "it's a quarter of our user base, we should at least test it", de…
Doesn't Firefox still include google analytics into its Preferences dialog boxes or something? Im finding these stats ironic.
If you're referring to Firefox using Google Analytics for the Firefox Add-ons frontend, as of July 2017, Mozilla has disabled Google Analytics for any browser that has Do Not Track enabled.
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785#issue...
This change was made in response to pressure from HN readers, so thanks to everyone for that.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#203There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…
> Maybe we should engage in large scale AdWords fraud.
You may like the "Google will eat itself" idea.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Explains why Reddit promotes it so much It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. Not only is it deliberately made a miserable experience by forcing you through AMP via Google and insisting you "continue in browser" every time, but then you're greeted with a banner that outright says "this page is better in the app".
> It must be very disheartening to work on reddit's mobile site. You can probably cross "mobile" out of this entirely. Reddit have spent three years now building sites that are worse in every way than the decade old junker it's trying to replace.
Yes but if you use old.reddit.com and specify just the subreddits you want (eg http://old.reddit.com/r/truereddit+technology+science) then you can still get something that's not too crappy.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#205There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…
Don't modern internet-connected TV boxes snitch on what people are watching? Surely we don't need a sampling anymore?
Just thinking that the elderly population is probably the least likely to use those boxes (though I am not even sure of that), whereas they constitute the (dying) core of traditional TV viewership.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#206There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…
"large scale AdWords fraud." Be carefull - fraud is a crime. But I am under no obligation to provide AdWords any data, let alone true and reliable data. Considering the tracking and spying, and my legitimate interest in privacy, there is no room for fraud argument here. PS: this would be probably a Hoax
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#207Adblocking an immoral tragedy of the commons type move. Psychologically, It's not unlike NIMBYism or residents of a gated community that figured out how to avoid paying their taxes.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#208That's why apps are so popular with ad driven properties. No cookie banners, hardly any limitations. And you get to keep users nicely inside the walled garden.
Anyway, I indeed use Firefox with ublock origin, multi account containers, etc. I also use Firefox on Android. A lot of stuff people assume they need apps for works just fine in that.
Re: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
#209There is a German movie about the system that is used to gather TV ratings. It's a special box that some users get which reports what they are watching. Small sample size goes into a big statistic (not sure how accurate the portrayal of the system in the movie is). These boxes are given to the people who pay the German public TV fee, which excludes i.e. students (they don't have to pay) and some other groups. This gr…
Don't modern internet-connected TV boxes snitch on what people are watching? Surely we don't need a sampling anymore? Just thinking that the elderly population is probably the least likely to use those boxes (though I am not even sure of that), whereas they constitute the (dying) core of traditional TV viewership.
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#21099% of users ignore online adds. Most advertising is a con, on the ad buyer.
HN users think they're too smart to be susceptible to ads, but I'm skeptical! I think ads work.
I block ads not because I'm anti-ad, but because
1) it's nearly impossible to browse the web at all without an ad blocker
and
2) Malware has been delivered via ad networks, sometimes on otherwise reliable websites that were duped into running the ad.
I'd have no problem with ads if they appeared as ads used to appear in a newspaper - static content between articles that doesn't distract or interfere with my reading experience.