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Is plausible also blocked when used with a custom domain so that tracking results are POSTed to your own domain?

• chrismorgan 6y ago
  If you use a CNAME (tracker.mysite.example → tracker.example), uBlock Origin on Firefox will still be able to block it. (I have no idea whether Plausible offers this mode of operation. I don’t see “CNAME” mentioned on their site, so probably not.) If you run some kind of proxy yourself on an unconventional name (e.g. “ads.mysite.example” may well be blocked) and make sure that any script it needs loads from your own site, again with an unconventional name (e.g. “piwik.js” would be blocked as Matomo), then your tracker won’t be blocked until someone notices. If you want to head far down this route, smuggle analytics data in with legitimate requests and separate and forward it on your server. Fortunately, taking it to this extreme takes enough effort that it’s decidedly uncommon.
  • gorhill 6y ago
    > I have no idea whether Plausible offers this mode of operation The site of the article cloaks `custom.plausible.io` as `ms.markosaric.com`.
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    • Symbiote 6y ago
      Sometime between the mention here of plausible.io being blocked, and your comment, markosaric.com was changed to use CNAME cloaking.