> Which pages were featured and on which social media platforms?
This was the “killer feature” of the Google Analytics replacement I built for myself a few years back. I would grab referrers for social and scrape them to give a more useful report of the source of traffic.
Unfortunately this is challenging or impossible for many social platforms due to HTTPS everywhere, the prevalence of outbound link scrubbing, and app-driven embedded web views.
I still think it would be a killer feature to know who tweeted you out or which subreddit you are trending on but it’s just not feasible to do based on a website pixel alone.
How does https stop this? I understand many websites will redirect before loading a link to clear the referrer data which is a good thing since the referrer header has been abused far too much.
I imagine originally its intent was for website owners to see what other websites linked to them but now it gets used to track the users
This was the “killer feature” of the Google Analytics replacement I built for myself a few years back. I would grab referrers for social and scrape them to give a more useful report of the source of traffic.
Unfortunately this is challenging or impossible for many social platforms due to HTTPS everywhere, the prevalence of outbound link scrubbing, and app-driven embedded web views.
I still think it would be a killer feature to know who tweeted you out or which subreddit you are trending on but it’s just not feasible to do based on a website pixel alone.