Block Russia Data in AA

[rayhla]

Hi -  How do you block Russian data in Adobe analytics? Right now, we don't have a Russian server set up to collect data, so the direction is to disable tracking for all Russian IPs. 

[bjoern__koth]

Hi @rayhla 

do you mean website traffic from Russia? If your stakeholder does not want Russian traffic altogether, maybe the website stack should not deliver content in the first place.

On Analytics, there is no built-in functionality that can drop traffic based on GeoIP country information.

Depending on your cookie consent tool, it could support GeoIP lookup information that is used to display different banner versions. I know of OneTrust CookiePro which API you can tap into to retrieve country information.

Can you specify what exactly you are trying to achieve?

[rayhla]

Hi @bjoern__koth thanks for your response. 

We’ve disabled our geo-site in Russia, but users there can still access the other geo-sites, so we want to ensure we’re not tracking them.

We’re using OneTrust to identify user locations based on IP and disable analytics tracking. However, we’re still seeing data from the "Russian Federation" in the reports under the OOB dimension "Countries." This is likely due to the different third-party tool (DigitalElement) being used by Adobe to identify user IPs, which we believe is why we’re still receiving this data.