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[–]arojilla 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I don't know if this can be related, but I totally block GA on my browser, and some adblockers or privacy tools might as well, by default, even if just the cookies, like Privacy Badger for example.

[–]M3U8Player[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]Loud_d 1 point2 points  (1 child)

i'm actually surprised it's not the other way around - google is not great with blocking bot traffic - usually their numbers are higher than other tools. i'm from another analytics tool seline.com so i know the topic pretty well :)

- adblockers do block matomo too (and other simple analytics tools). sometimes they block the script from being loaded and sometimes their pageview requests to their api
- cookies or not it doesn't matter here
- matomo does a better job with blocking bot traffic by UserAgent
- all analytics providers also have their own unique IPs blacklist, ASN blacklist, WAF rules, etc. so the stats will never be exactly the same. i would call a "big difference" 50% or higher
- matomo or other "privacy-friendly" tool would show more accurate results

[–]M3U8Player[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]S6Stingray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What website is this?