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#06GA4 saw nothing for four days. The fix was gated behind the consent it was meant to make optional.
The Consent Mode v2 default that was supposed to fire for every visitor lived inside a function that only ran after someone clicked Accept. So first-time visitors loaded no analytics at all, and GA4 recorded nothing.
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#07GA4 went dark for four days. Both fixes were right. One was in the wrong place.
Two PRs, each diagnosing a real fault, and GA4 still flat four days later. The problem wasn’t whether the consent signal was present — it was where in the document it lived relative to gtag.js.
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#08My canonical tags were deindexing my own articles. GA4 had been right all along.
GA4 showed 2 events per seven days across a site with 70+ articles. The first instinct was broken tracking. The real cause was canonical tags instructing Google to ignore the pages meant to rank — a discovery collapse that looks identical to a measurement failure until GSC gives it away.
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