Jeff GeerlingIt's good to see DuckDuckGo getting some traction for my site referrals, though still pales in comparison to Google.
pbeccard@geerlingguy People don't block/overwrite referrers anymore? I though that especially on more technical sites this was common.
@pbeccard they do sometimes, so this is just the people who aren't blocking it. But I also self host analytics, and that leads to fewer people also blocking my tiny non-cookie tracking domain.
@geerlingguy I'm curious. How could your own analytics catch something like https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/smart-referer/ (yes, the Addon has not been maintained in years) which sends the URL of the page loaded as the HTTP referer?
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@pbeccard if it's checking on jeffgeerling.com, I self host Fathom on midwesternmac.com, so not sure if that would catch it or not.
Someday I'll move to a different analytics tool though. Always no cookies.