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Eric Ho
@eric_ho · Cofounder at PaveAI
Hey,
Thanks for hunting Justin! Eric, cofounder at PaveIQ here.
We built this tool because we were frustrated by spam like 'social-buttons.xyz' and 'top1-seo-service.com' mucking up our Google Analytics data. Every time we applied a filter to block one spam bot, a new one pops up a few days later. So we built this for our users and decided to share it - ca… See more
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Hey,
Thanks for hunting Justin! Eric, cofounder at PaveIQ here.
We built this tool because we were frustrated by spam like 'social-buttons.xyz' and 'top1-seo-service.com' mucking up our Google Analytics data. Every time we applied a filter to block one spam bot, a new one pops up a few days later. So we built this for our users and decided to share it - ca… See more
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
We (and so many others) deal with this. We ended up filtering out clusters of IP addresses that were obviously bots.
How do you detect new spam bots, @eric_ho?
Joshua Dance
@joshdance · Engineer, Product Manager, athlete
This. Is. Awesome. I was just thinking that I wish someone made this automatic. Thank you!
Also wondering why Google doesn't do this themselves?
Barry Hand
@barryhand · Energetic & Ambitious. I work best with
This really isn't a problem for anyone actively using GA, and in a way is good because now people are learning about filters and segments.
But completely understand the market who would use this service, but do they know the implications of opening up their GA account to API access for you guys? There's zero privacy disclaimer