Agreed this was pretty lame. I kept on reading waiting for the inevitable 'this is on HackerNews because I wrote a program to flood them with fake analytics', i

Agreed this was pretty lame. I kept on reading waiting for the inevitable 'this is on HackerNews because I wrote a program to flood them with fake analytics', instead it's literally just the one drop in the ocean. A marketeer will (not) see some silly name at the bottom of page 30 of their google analytics traffic and that's it. This is the equivalent of writing 'poop' on a survey where your name or answer is supposed to go. i.e. everyone will do it once in their lives, but we really don't need to write blog posts about it and link to them on HN. The only difference is that it's likely someone will actually read 'poop' on a survey when entering the data, whereas on GA it'll be ignored on the bottom of the list.