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Tracking campaigns: obfuscate URL campaign parameters #10217

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mattab opened this issue Jun 7, 2016 · 1 comment
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Tracking campaigns: obfuscate URL campaign parameters #10217

mattab opened this issue Jun 7, 2016 · 1 comment
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Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.

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mattab commented Jun 7, 2016

Feedback from email:

My feedback on the Tracking Campaigns URL builder.

I always feel that plain text tracking parameters look amateur, eg ?pk_campaign=facebook&pk_kwd=bluebackground

They just tell the viewer too much about what you're testing.

I wonder if the parameters could be obfuscated in some way eg piwik=ZNf5ppNUHxZEtefIVynmx70p3kiZiWSyoFNvQtdsa

Most people are used to seeing 'random' strings of characters in Facebook (etc) ads. And it would allow us to use more descriptive language without worrying about people reading what we're testing. If the string could be generated using some sort of unique key (or simply an ID with the description stored in our database) then even better.

Hope that helps

This is a nice suggestion which would make Piwik more usable and professional.

@mattab mattab added the Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. label Jun 7, 2016
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hpvd commented Jun 15, 2016

+1

maybe one could make it selectible which version should be used / make it possible to use both.

The actual (understandable) version may be very handy in some cases e.g.

  • during setup
  • if you also use other software which also relies/uses these parameters

@mattab mattab added this to the Long term milestone Jul 8, 2016
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab changed the title Tracking campaigns: more beautiful and simpler landing page URLs Tracking campaigns: obfuscate URL campaign parameters Aug 7, 2019
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