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No longer track various browser plugins #18726

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tsteur opened this issue Feb 2, 2022 · 5 comments
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No longer track various browser plugins #18726

tsteur opened this issue Feb 2, 2022 · 5 comments
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tsteur commented Feb 2, 2022

Can we stop tracking of Flash, Java, Windowsmedia, Silverlight, Realplayer and Quicktime?

These aren't really used anymore. Putting this for now into Matomo 5.0 so we don't forget discussing this when we get to it.

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I believe in Matomo 4.0 or 3.0 we already stopped tracking some plugins (not 100% sure) if I remember correctly. Can't find the PRs right now.

Would we also remove the historical data from the log tables by removing these columns? I think that should be fine and we could still show the aggregated data in the reports.

Looking at row evolution most have these plugins have gone to 1%/0% over a year ago.
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Findus23 commented Feb 2, 2022 •
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See also #15627 and #15956

@justinvelluppillai justinvelluppillai modified the milestones: 5.0.0, 6.0.0 Jul 8, 2022
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This could have a big impact on peoples databases and complicates the upgrade. Moving this to 6.0 where we can do it aligned to other database upgrades.

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sgiehl commented Jul 8, 2022

@jane-twizel We could actually already stop tracking some of the plugins and removing them from the reports maybe.
This does not necessarily need a database update. If we decide to remove the columns from the log tables, this might impact historical data when past data is re-archived.

Btw. there will already be a database upgrade for 5 if we include #17466

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tsteur commented Jul 8, 2022

👍 I'll check with @mattab on Monday if we need to have #17466 included

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tsteur commented Jul 11, 2022

We'll merge #17466 as part of Matomo 6 as well instead of Matomo 5 unless there were any other required log schema changes (except for the index). This way the Matomo 4 -> 5 upgrade won't have any major schema changes except for 1 index on a log table.

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