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Yes, you’ve got the gist of it. Essentially, what’s happening is that a user is trying to track website traffic using Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4). Because of people working from home, the typical IP address filtering isn’t going to work. So, the user is looking to filter data by individual user IDs, which are already being tracked.
The user has set things up so that they are in debug mode, meaning they have extra visibility of what’s happening. They’re confident their user ID system is working, but they are seeing something unexpected. Even though they haven’t put GTM in “Preview” mode (a specific debug mode for GTM), they’re still seeing data in the GA4’s Debug View. They’re also seeing this data on the real-time dashboard. The question seems to be about why this is happening and possibly how to stop or fine-tune it.
