How to filter referer spam out of your results

For data modelers & consumers
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What is the best way to filter/cope referer spam with Snowplow?

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Hi @Something,

Could you provide some more details about the referrer spam you are seeing?

Thanks!

Christophe

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Hi Christophe,
None yet, but in Google Analytics I installed filters to well filter them out of my results (part of the basic analytics setup). How do Snowplow users handle their referrer spam?

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We don’t filter events out of the box. It’s currently up to our users to inspect the data and filter out events as part of the data modeling/analytics process.

Hope this answers your question.

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Just to add: we’ve done some initial thinking about referral spam in this ticket, but haven’t come up with a concrete approach yet.