.google-analytics.com/

[em4r1z]

Does this imply that Gmail ads will be displayed? Because that's happening to me, at least in Gmail in Spanish and in the personal domains hosted in Google Apps (whose interface is also in Spanish).

[Wladimir Palant]

No, Google Analytics has very little to do with Google Ads. So you better create a new topic for this question. Don't forget to mention the website where you see this behavior and the filter subscription you are using.

[Ares2]

OK, it seems that the greasemonkey script only works for urchinTracker, but not for the new ga script. Probably because .pageTracker is not the right thing?

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<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-xxxxxxx-x");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>

[Wladimir Palant]

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var _gat = {tracker: {_trackPageview: function(){}}, _getTracker: function() {return this.tracker;}}

But I would definitely use setTimeout() trick here, just to be on the safe side.

[Ares2]

TYVM, works great on all sites I tested.

So If anyone else is interested in blocking Google Analytics completely without causing some sites to not work properly, simply add the filter

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||google-analytics.com^$third-party

and a Greasemonkey UserScript like this

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Google Analytics fix
// @namespace      https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4160
// @include        *
// ==/UserScript==

window.setTimeout("window.urchinTracker = function(){};", 0);
window.setTimeout("var _gat = {tracker: {_trackPageview: function(){}}, _getTracker: function() {return this.tracker;}}", 0);

[tmr250z]

TYVM, works great on all sites I tested.

Really? Did you try it on typeracer.com?
I just did, and I'm still getting that browser freezing error I described here. Does that still happen for you too or is it just me?

[Ares2]

Really? Did you try it on typeracer.com?
I just did, and I'm still getting that browser freezing error I described here. Does that still happen for you too or is it just me?

Yep, still freezes. But this site doesn't use the standard GA code (there is an additional script with .pageTracker), so it's just a problem with this specific site.

[tmr250z]

Yep, still freezes. But this site doesn't use the standard GA code (there is an additional script with .pageTracker), so it's just a problem with this specific site.

Yeah, so I'm just going to add an exception for typeracer.com in the filter and the userscript.

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.google-analytics.com/$domain=~typeracer.com

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Google Analytics fix
// @namespace      http://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4160
// @include        *
// @exclude        http://typeracer.com/*
// @exclude        http://*.typeracer.com/*
// ==/UserScript==

window.setTimeout("window.urchinTracker = function(){};", 0);
window.setTimeout("var _gat = {tracker: {_trackPageview: function(){}}, _getTracker: function() {return this.tracker;}}", 0);

That will work right?

[Ares2]

Yep.

[tmr250z]

Yep.

Thanks

[Guest]

I notice .google-analytics.com/ doesn't figure in Easylist.

http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js is not blocked at http://www.yogameditation.com/.

http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js is not blocked at http://www.economist.com/.

Any specific reason.

[Anomymous]

"@grant none" runs the whole script in the window context without using unsafeWindow or GM APIs.

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// ==UserScript==
// @name           Google Analytics fix
// @namespace      http://aaa.aaa.aa/
// @include        *
// @grant        none
// ==/UserScript==
urchinTracker = function(){};
pageTracker = function(){};

[Boris]

I notice .google-analytics.com/ doesn't figure in Easylist.

http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js is not blocked at http://www.yogameditation.com/.

http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js is not blocked at http://www.economist.com/.

Any specific reason.

It needs a lot of exceptions as few other tracking scripts and especially on shopping and gaming websites. You have to download Fanboy's "Advanced tracking List" filter. It blocks GA and other tracking scripts not included in Easylist. Downside, it gets updated maybe once a month.

[fanboy]

Downside, it gets updated maybe once a month.

Well, updated when theres a bug.. no new major additions.