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No match for "WWW.GOOGLE-ANALYTICS.COM".

scojones · 2005-12-09 13:27:56

I've noticed when playing on boards, and other sites, that firefox makes queries to www.google-analytics.com Go to the site, there's nothing there. This site also has no whois information, and doing a google search brings up nothing about it either. Has anyone noticed this kind of thing with firefox as well? By the way I'm…

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09-12-2005 2:27pm

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scojones

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I've noticed when playing on boards, and other sites, that firefox makes queries to www.google-analytics.com

Go to the site, there's nothing there. This site also has no whois information, and doing a google search brings up nothing about it either. Has anyone noticed this kind of thing with firefox as well?

By the way I'm in Linux, so I doubt it's some spyware or something.

Hmm

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#2 09-12-2005 2:29pm
scojones

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http://labnol.blogspot.com/2005/11/prevent-google-analytics-from-tracking.html

Add
# [Google Inc]
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

to your /etc/hosts file and it prevents it.

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#3 20-12-2005 1:29pm
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http://www.google.com/analytics/ - just outta interest.

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