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  • @danwhite1234

    No, I do not believe Otto is saying you need to get a new UA id because the new Id will simply get spammed in turn as the nefarious Russos run their computer program that probably cycles through the 100000000 possible combinations of UA-abcdefgh-1 every single hour (on the hour according to my GA stats).

    Your new UA id will get hit just like your old one.

    Here is what a GA expert recommends:

    Go into Admin for your Analytics property view, create a Filter – Custom – Exclude – field name Hostname, and use ‘lumb.co’ without the quotes.

    That gets them and the others that appeared today (they seem to be rotating sources).

    Doing the above will keep them out of your stats…for now, these referral spammers evolve as us site hosts are kept on our toes defending against their attacks ever changing tactics (first s’malt, then buttons, now co.lumb = coevolution). Whatever you do, just try to resist the temptation to follow their URLs because they *win* when you do that.

    Has anyone else noticed that the 8 digit number that follows ‘topic’ in the referral link matches their Google Analytics tracking Id number (e.g., UA-12345678-1) found in the Javascript code that goes in the “<head></head>” section of their website?

    For example, if your GA tracking Id is UA-76543210-1, then the blahrodar spammers hit your Analytics with “https://forum.topic76543210.blahrodar.com/&#8221;

    I think this may further support @fraenk’s hypothesis that they are spamming GA using our UA-ids without interacting with our servers or websites in any way.

    P.S. I purposely changed the ‘da’ to ‘blah’ to prevent a crawler from indexing this comment as a reference to those scofflaws and thereby furthering their spamming efforts

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