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You might wanna switch to another analytics provider (temporarily) when posting on HN. Because 60%+ users probably block it anyway, so you will lose the insights, etc

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I am asking out of curiosity: is it possible & legal to set up a simple proxy server to redirect analytics data to the provider? So that the analytics traffic goes to the same domain - and is not blocked?

Google probably don't want that happening because they use the data to inform decisions for all kinds of other things (search, ad sales, filling in gaps in their creepy profiles of people, maybe even metrics-driven machine-learning-for-web-design, who knows) and are more worried about web site owners feeding them mountains of fake data than about missing stats on some % of ad-blocking users.

Use uBlock Origin. It blocks even those sneaky DNS changers

uBlock Origin blocks that too. CNAME blocking. But only on Firefox, since Chrome doesnt support it.

When on example.com , a request is sent to definitely-not-tracking.example.com . But it just going to tracking.ad-server.com . uBO blocks those on Firefox

https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg...

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/780

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