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by hinkley 2305 days ago
Maybe we should we whitelisting for analytics. Instead of perpetually trying to identify bots, Pick the 20% of your users who you are pretty sure are actually humans. Nielsen-style, if you will.

Maybe two cohorts. The people we're really sure about, and the ones we're pretty sure about. If they diverge, ask why.
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saagarjha 2305 days ago
> Instead of perpetually trying to identify bots, Pick the 20% of your users who you are pretty sure are actually humans.

Note that reCAPTCHA thinks you’re a bot if you block analytics…

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mikro2nd 2305 days ago
Not that that matters to me since I have (re)captcha blocked, too...
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wizzwizz4 2305 days ago
Blocking reCAPTCHA has lost me hours of work, repeatedly. And I still do it.

The Textarea Cache Firefox extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cach... is incredibly useful, but I keep forgetting to install it when I get to a new machine. I forget only once.

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