Answers about ad-blockers
Questions and answers from the Croct community about ad-blockers.
After moving Croct behind our own domain, what CSP directives are still needed?
We recently completed a first-party proxying rollout for Croct requests, using the baseEndpointUrl and cidAssignerEndpointUrl options to route SDK traffic…
Ad blockers silently drop a chunk of visitors from our client-side tests, how do you keep samples honest?
Framing this as a sampling bias problem because that is what it is. Our client-side testing tool's script is on common blocklists, so visitors running ad…
Sentry is full of failed fetch errors to Croct endpoints from a subset of browsers
Triaging our Sentry inbox this week and one issue group dominates everything: The failing URLs are always /client/web/track and /client/web/evaluate. It is a…
Ad blockers are eating a chunk of our Shopify tracking, any first-party option?
I have been comparing event counts from our Shopify storefront against the server logs and there is a consistent gap, roughly 12 percent of sessions produce…
About 8 percent of sessions never send events, traced it to ad blockers
As the growth lead I reconciled our Croct session counts against raw server logs and found a consistent gap: roughly 8.2% of sessions in the logs never appear…
Ad blockers are blocking Croct requests, how do I keep evaluation working?
Seeing this in devtools with uBlock enabled: Looks like an EasyList rule. How are people routing around this, is there a supported setup or does everyone just…