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I wrote an example for graduate students in the US to create a webpage and directed them to look at my webpage for an example template. Now they all copy my analytics tracking code, and I have like tens of student websites that I'm tracking me. It annoys me. I think we should have some sort of two-way authentication or atleast a way to "mute" certain domains or only whitelist certain domains in the reporting side of GA. Perhaps it exists?

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Seriously Google, unless the domain == example.com , don't show it by default.

Actually it's so you can track multiple domain with one code. I do this with subdomains so that I can see all my traffic as well as by individual subdomain.

Hello User #1122111, we see you are trying to track potatoes.example.com , would you like to show this?

Y/N

It probably doesn't come up all that often.

Great, which means most users will never see the message when someone adds their tracking code.

It doesn't happen that much, so "most users" is going to not be very many users.

I thought they asked for verification. Or was it only for webmaster tool?

And even so I supposed after the verification step the code is active so anyone could use it. Does GA code ever expire?

Sounds like an expiration date would be a reasonable solution plus a way for the account holder to deactivate the code from admin panel.

You can set-up a hostname filter in the admin section of GA. Best to do this in a separate view so that you can still access unfiltered data if you ever need to do so

I don't really know anything about Google Analytics, but this seems relevant:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/Cln...

You can use the method I specified above to fix your issue.

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