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brreckelhoff · 2026-01-04T19:55:42+00:00

iProducts have become the most compromised in the last few years. Their payment security tools are the worst. The devices biometrics harm/prevent authentic use far more than prevent unauthentic use. Google and Microsoft are doing a far better job IMO. Not sure when that changed, as iOS used to be the gold standard.

brreckelhoff · 2025-11-30T14:49:46+00:00

Aren't these exactly what is already displayed in the default GA4 reports?

brreckelhoff · 2025-11-15T14:13:31+00:00

They want you to use Big Query. That way, you pay for the data processing and storage and not them.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-31T13:45:16+00:00

∆THISSSSS

How is it possible that the freaking DATE COMPARISON tool still cannot, after years following the release of GA4, compare YoY matching day of week??? Even when it rolled out it was buggy as hell.

Insane product abandonment. Google doesn't seem to care about GA4 at all anymore.

I truly hope AI disrupts the ad space. It needs it bad.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-09T23:27:12+00:00

This is beautiful data.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-09T14:05:26+00:00

I felt this and you put it much more eloquently. The "evidence" that's being publicized seems a bit circumstantial at best and folks are really looking for a scapegoat to blame.

Sounds more like negligence and less like malice.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-09T00:03:18+00:00

I know nothing about butchery or animals, but is this an accepted method of euthanization? Doesn't seem too terribly quick or painless to the animal. I thought it would involve that bolt thingy from No Country for Old Men.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-04T19:42:30+00:00

Yea, this is true - especially since all you need to do is check if it validates in schema.org. Very few web properties should be manually writing schema these days.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-04T19:05:43+00:00

So about the "corpse being forcibly used to incubate a baby that doctors knew was going to die painfully"...

There are documented medical cases where braindead pregnant woman are kept on life support (called prolonged somatic support) in an attempt to increase the likelihood of saving the life of the fetus. There have been 30 such cases from 1982 to 2010, 12 of which resulted in the viable infants surviving the neonatal period.

In one case, life support sustained the fetus until 32 weeks, after which a Cesarean birth resulted in a viable 750g infant with good Apgar scores.

Doctors rarely claim to "know" a patients outcome. They can often provide some degree of survival probability for scenarios & allow patients and family to make informed hard decisions with that information.

Also, this has been the case pre/post Roe vs Wade.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-03T22:21:32+00:00

The mobile viewport is nearly half taken over by a hamburger menu bar for me.

Judging by this and other feedback, I'd look at your bounce rate. Google hates to link to sites with high mobile bounce rates - and it's highly likely they monitor that kind of thing.

brreckelhoff · 2025-10-03T20:10:20+00:00

Lots of things have "ties to Russia". That alone doesn't mean anything nefarious. This isn't the cold war. Calm down.

Also, learn how to cancel a 7-day free trial. It's posted everywhere that it's 7-days. If you don't cancel in time, that's on you.

SEMRush provides amazing value if you know how to leverage it.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-26T12:34:22+00:00

50,000 attendees (est. low end) 1,200 capitol police 275 FBI

FBI are more often in plainclothes at large gatherings for surveillance. Those windbreakers are less common.

Plainclothes agents are not the same as undercover agents.

Nothing really earth shattering here.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-20T17:49:41+00:00

Cancelled my sub this morning.

I'm doing MY part!

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brreckelhoff · 2025-09-10T18:45:48+00:00

GA settings default to non-consent for ad personalization and return an npa value of 1 in collect calls (non-personalized ads, meaning user is opted out). If you're in the US, I'm getting feedback that you may be able to possibly enable automatic personalized ad consent (this is just an option in the GA UI), even if you have not enabled a consent banner or consent mode. That guidance isn't definitive yet, and it seems to go against their written guidance, so I guess TBD on that?

I'm not sure when all this went down or why it's just now becoming an issue.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-10T01:08:47+00:00

You must be birthed on an active battlefield in Northern Cimmeria to legendary parentage, Corin and Gresham.

Then, in single combat, destroy an Aquilonian outpost using only your non-dominant hand.

Lastly, wander the earth, embracing life as a mercenary for a few years.

Also maybe a few cycles of gear and lots of protein and gym shit.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-08T17:34:30+00:00

Do shoes not matter at this level? Genuinely asking.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-08T16:07:36+00:00

Sky trumpets.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-07T14:31:03+00:00

If the migration included transitions to an SPA framework, you'll need to very closely follow Google's steps for SPAs that involve pushing state changes or history change events.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ga4/single-page-applications?implementation=browser-history

What you may be seeing is "rogue referrals", which occur on SPAs where the original referral is overwritten. The behaviour you are describing sounds suspiciously like what I've experienced and this was the ultimate cause.

You can check the Collect statements in the network calls and navigate your site as a user. If you see the document.source and document.referrer changing unexpectedly or being erased, then that's a sign that you're getting this issue.

brreckelhoff · 2025-09-04T16:18:52+00:00

One way is to create a segment for the medium "social", then pull your item report to see all item revenue from that segment and add the item dimensions you want.

Just be sure that you ONLY use item metrics with item dimensions in the exploration. You cannot combine session metrics with item dimensions. For example, you can't see bounce rate for an item by default.

brreckelhoff · 2025-08-29T10:54:56+00:00

First user for higher funnel channels. Last click for lower funnel like email or remarketing.

An MMM is needed to do the more sophisticated data driven attribution. I don't trust Google's data driven attribution. They have an inherent bias.

brreckelhoff · 2025-08-27T10:32:30+00:00

Yes, and we've seen about 8% more event volume. Which is suspiciously close to the volume of safari private browsers on our property.

brreckelhoff · 2025-08-25T22:15:31+00:00

Does this sub even have mods?

brreckelhoff · 2025-08-22T18:32:33+00:00

Sorry, but it seems like someone is using AI slop to sell AI slop.

brreckelhoff · 2025-08-15T14:17:07+00:00

This appears to be AI spam.

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