does this have anything to do with 'poisoning the DNS cache" ?? or just JS urchin tracker only ??
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Can you believe I am the third person the digg this story??(but my comment suck)--On Digg |
Haha I never even thought of this. I stopped checking my site stats regularly after I started getting over 1000 unique visits a day. |
I think this applies to all of the services like this though doesn't it?
Anything that makes you paste a JavaScript segment into your pages. |
Sam, not if the stats tool simply checks for a list of valid domains. After all Google Analytics already aks you to define the domain you want to insert the tracking code into, so they could easily validate this... |
Yes... but do they ever validate it?
I know I have changed my website (my whole domain) recently. And my statcounter code still works fine. (As does GAnalytics of course). |
The only check Google could use is checking if the referer matches the domain the tracking code is associated with. After all, the tracking is done by the visitor's browser requesting the counter object from Analytics.
And for someone with a malicious intent, it is easy to forge the referer.
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Right now Analytics occasionally shows hits to my website through the Google Cache. The Google Cache maintains the javascript, so those hits are recorded as well. There is a domain section to Analytics and you can see what domains users hit (so most of mine are to my domain, but occasionally I see an IP address owned by Google). |
afaik it it possible to filter results by domain, so if this would happen to someone, he would find it soon. this error got all such tools, it is impossible to 100% block it. |
> this error got all such tools, it is impossible to 100% block it.
Why not simply filter by domains to avoid it? |
I think it's to make switching domains easy. I recently switched domains and thought I would have to change my Adsense code, but on the Adsense help it said you could just move the code wherever, whenever. |