On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 11:03:32 +0100 Chris Green cl@isbd.net allegedly wrote:
Is it possible to provide a 'do nothing' web page so that one can set references to google.analytics.com for example to go to a page on localhost that does nothing?
I've no particular hang-up about google analytics except tha it's so slow. When accessing the Screwfix site for example it spends much more time on Google analytics than it does telling me what I want to know.
If I just put an entry like 127.0.0.1 google.analytics.com
In my /etc/hosts file it will presumably get lots of 'page not found' errors, probably OK but I was wondering if there was a neater way.
I do exactly that. The hosts file on my local DNS server (running DNSMasq) is derived from Dan Pollock's file at http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ Dan includes lots of google servers in his file.
Mick
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