Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

Post by jandrese » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:07 PM UTC

jancsika wrote: post #435

atoav wrote: post #281

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As someone who has been in one or another meeting with German TV stations I can assure you this is not completely far fetched. The people deciding what is running at these stations are of the mindset (a translated quote): > Our average viewer is 65 years old and watches TV while doing the dishes, we must not show things that cannot be understood by them and then they will serenade about how they would "love to have a…

> Our average viewer is 65 years old and watches TV while doing the dishes, we must not show things that cannot be understood by them So like, sticking only to the first and second derivative in soap opera plots about retired civil engineers? No late-period Beethoven sonatas as background music? That must be difficult for you as a German. Meanwhile, here in America we're perhaps a few years away from something like t…

Post by yumraj » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:19 PM UTC

jccalhoun wrote: post #299

I am amazed at how non-techy people use the internet. I teach college and I will sometimes have students go to some web site. I am amazed at how few use adblocking and just accept all the ads and popups and overlays and crap. Even more than that, I will see them using something like google docs and google will put an overlay for some new feature and they don't click the X to close it. They just type away with that ov…

Post by Cyberdog » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:44 PM UTC

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Cyberdog wrote: post #156

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> One of my clients' website traffic is composed of over 75% bot traffic. Server-side logs are unusable for anything other than site performance. I'm unclear how broad you intend that second sentence to be, but there's still a ton of info you can glean just from server-side logs: - Referrer info, and, by extension, popular search terms being used to find your site; - Paths on your site causing 5xx errors (so pages wh…

No, you're right, I shouldn't have written something so dismissive. (I do include error tracing as part of "performance" for what it's worth but those have their own system from within the app itself) Frankly I would love to see some serious low-config solutions to analyzing server-side logs. Oh, especially Fastly. Client in question uses Fastly and it blew my mind to find out that there was nothing in place to answe…

Post by byecomputer » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 9:49 PM UTC

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> Maybe we should engage in large scale AdWords fraud. You may like the "Google will eat itself" idea. https://www.gwei.org/index.php

Isn't this just investing the results of ad fraud into Google? Probably a profitable idea, but I'm not seeing the "Google eating itself" aspect.

Post by 1--6zVa-E » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

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happybuy wrote: post #27

As a developer of an ad blocker[1] our stats would seem to back up what Plausible has found: - Despite having equivalent desktop (macOS) and mobile (iOS) apps, most of our users (> 75%) use the app primarily on desktop - Most users say the key reason for use is for privacy protection; even with Safari providing some inbuilt privacy tracking protection - Our app is focused on providing a simple 'set and forget' ad blo…

Are there any ad blockers for iOS that can block ads in google search results? Or is that kind of thing essentially impossible?