@tsteur
Use case:
Someone downloads a page from your website and stores it locally. Then the user opens it and the user will be tracked and the URL might look like
file:///C:/Users/myname/AppData/Local/...This way we actually track personal data potentially by accident without knowing.
- We would always exclude page urls with this protocol by default
- There should be a method to opt out of this feature so you can track these requests if needed.
- We create an FAQ to document this behaviour / feature.
As this could be seen as a BC break we need to maybe wait for Matomo 5 for this and/or clearly announce this and warn users of this change.
see https://developer.matomo.org/guides/jstracker-core this would need to be changed in js/piwik.js see how to embed tracking code https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guide
This would be a great new privacy feature which be quick to implement 👍
@peterhashair
@tsteur just found we have something similar, but not the same. Do we consider removing that one?
https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/blob/6be3e32e29ef8c70e13ace7ef02efcacb64154b5/js/piwik.js#L6524-L6528
@peterhashair we would keep it to not break the API as some people might use this
Add documents here. https://matomo.org/?post_type=faq&p=59435&preview=true
@sgiehl
@peterhashair the new method should also be added here: https://developer.matomo.org/api-reference/tracking-javascript
But as this will be included in Matomo 5 only, we maybe should first start the documentation for 5.x. See https://github.com/matomo-org/developer-documentation/issues/675
@sgiehl should I wait for the 5.x documentation created? Or should I created PR follow those steps https://github.com/matomo-org/developer-documentation/#how-to-add-docs-for-a-new-matomo-version
Let's wait till https://github.com/matomo-org/developer-documentation/issues/675 is done
@justinvelluppillai
Looks like this is ready now @peterhashair @sgiehl - 5.x-dev documentation is now live.
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