Umami collection being blocked, resulting in less users and impressions being shown

[Fawesum]

So I installed Umami because I wanted to get traffic numbers for those who block Google Analytics with adblockers. The first year or so this went well and we saw that around 30% of our users blocked GA – we finally had correct numbers!

However, the last few months I've seen Umami report way less users and impressions than Google Analytics. Like 30-40% more than Umami.

It seems Umami is now being blocked by the likes of uBlock. The default umami.js file is blocked, but even if I rename it to something not on the blocked list, the collection of data is blocked:

api/collect net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT

It's the XMLHttpRequest that is being blocked:

function(t, e, n) { var a = new XMLHttpRequest; a.open("POST", t, !0), a.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json"), a.onreadystatechange = function() { 4 === a.readyState && n && n(a.response) } , a.send(JSON.stringify(e)) }(N + "/api/collect", { type: t, payload: i }, (function(t) { return k && f.setItem(a, t) } ))

Any ideas on how to counteract this?

[sdvcrx]

You can try setting the environment variable COLLECT_API_ENDPOINT and rebuild umami (default value is /api/collect)

[hkamran80]

I use a Cloudflare Worker, as described in #1026 (comment).