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Bug fixes for IP address tags & filters when anonymization is enabled
Since GDPR became law in May 2018, one of the things we did was make IP address anonymization the default. It took a few bug reports that very slowly rolled in before we realized this broke existing IP tags and filters unless they were also updated or were already using wildcards. I'm guessing most people already use wildcards because even after we knew about the problem, very rarely would anyone contact us about it.
Good news, we just pushed up a fix. What happens now is if you have IP anonymization enabled, then at run time (in both Spy and in the script that processes traffic in batches every 20 seconds), we dynamically convert all IP tags and filters to wildcards, which will then match anonymized IPs as they roll in. It sounds simple but we took the time to rewrite a bunch of related legacy code that hadn't been touched for a while, that always adds in some unexpected fun.
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5 Exciting Design Trends in Mobile App Design (and How They Impact Your Online Business)
One of the fastest-evolving mediums for putting our business ideas into action is mobile technology.
Mobile technology allows businesses to form relationships with customers on an individual level, to forge stronger brand relationships, and to become more relevant in today’s digital world. As a result, it’s becoming less of an option for businesses to have a mobile app and more of a necessity.
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Suspended Twitter account [Update: we're back]
Our Twitter account, @clicky, was suspended for unknown reasons on June 24. Tomorrow will be 1 month since that happened.
UPDATE AUGUST 10 2020: After 5 appeals and 47 days, Twitter finally responded re: our account suspension and informed us that it was in fact to do with our search API usage, as we surmise at the very bottom of this post. So that feature is disabled for now. 😩 /UPDATE
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California Consumer Privacy Act (and a note about Twitter)
Just wanted to briefly get this out of the way. On June 24, our Twitter account, @clicky, was suspended for reasons unknown. I'm stunned that they would suspend an account without notification or reason. It just suddenly…gone. We've submitted two appeals and heard nothing back. Hopefully it will be sorted out soon. Twitter is where we post the most updates, in particular we have many things to say that don't warrant a full blog post and often enough that Twitter is the perfect place to do that, so having this cutoff is painful.
Anyways… on to the meat and potatoes:
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Mobile-friendly Clicky is here!
In a few months Clicky will celebrate its 13th birthday, and I'm happy to say it is now (finally) 100% mobile friendly, and our old dedicated mobile site is history. Almost everyone used the normal version of Clicky on their phones anyways, but now it should be a much better experience. This has been one of our biggest feature requests of the last 5+ years so I'm thrilled it's arrived!
Oh and we have a new dark mode too: