[DaveR]

(12-01-2016 10:23 AM)weambulance Wrote:  

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Okay, I found a downside. My pihole is blocking the google analytics admin page by default. I couldn't figure out what the fuck was going on when I was trying to set up analytics on a new site, and I ended up using my cell phone hot spot to do it. I didn't get any kind of useful error message; the page just wouldn't load at all.

Theoretically I'll be able to whitelist the google analytics site, but I haven't tried that yet. It seems odd that the actual analytics.google.com site is entirely blocked by default, since there's probably a fair bit of overlap between nerds who build websites with analytics and nerds who use piholes.

You can use a browser-based VPN (technically a proxy server) to get around it. Maybe set up a second browser specifically for testing or working on sites that are blacklisted. Opera comes with its own VPN for free, otherwise use Zenmate, Tunnelbear, or another free one.

[Valentine]

Another simple way could be to whitelist Google Analytics and then use a browser-based extension like uMatrix set to selectively block Google Analytics globally but enabled when you go on the site itself.

[RexImperator]

Recently I've noticed a change in the ads on sites. They've been redesigned so they're now harder to quickly scroll past on my phone. It's slowed things down so much a lot of the web simply bogs down and is just useless.

[LeeEnfield303]

You sure it's not the Russians? Apparently everything else is.