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by gesman 3996 days ago
Taking advantage of GA deficiencies is widely used to inflate traffic figures during website sales negotiations.

GA is really not a product you want to trust your business with. Best approach is to consider self-hosted analytics solutions.

I built my own for my needs which also include combined features for security analytics to investigate malware attacks. GA is totally useless in this aspect.

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> features for security analytics to investigate malware attacks. GA is totally useless in this aspect.

Of course it is, it's a marketing analytics tool. It's totally useless for many things that aren't related to marketing.

Concealing IP addresses and ignoring spammy referrers doesn't help in marketing either.