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Community-contributed list of referrer spammers. Comment +1 in any issue or Pull request and the spammer will be added to the list!
https://matomo.org/blog/2015/05/stopping-referrer-spam/
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Spammers.txt update requests #49

Closed myfirstnameispaul closed 9 years ago

myfirstnameispaul commented 9 years ago

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I have a domain that has very narrow content and has been a reference and external link to many popular English Wikipedia articles since ~2009. I read that you are soon updating, so I thought I would go through the last month's worth of referrers and find all of the ones not on the current spammers.txt file. I have painstakingly visited every one of these sites, and, so far as I can tell, there would be no legitimate traffic to my site from these sites.

Due to the nature of my site, it is very easy for me to identify referral spam. Here are some things that generally give away referral spam:

afora.ru and others not seem to have good controls over their domain. How to handle when a domain owner is blatantly allowing referral spam domains via subdomains? Perhaps an option for users to select within Piwik to turn on/off reporting of spam-identified domain owners, else we'll be bombarded with FreeDNS-esque referral spam.

There should be some method to auto-contact registered owner of domain via whois info to notify them they are on the blocklist, else there could be opportunity to create a bad reputation for competitive reasons by exploiting the referral list tool.

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mattab commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the submissions and explanations how you defined them as spammers. I've added them to the list in https://github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist/pull/72

ghost commented 9 years ago

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