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Tracking without cookie or IP #3595

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hpvd opened this issue Dec 5, 2012 · 2 comments
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Tracking without cookie or IP #3595

hpvd opened this issue Dec 5, 2012 · 2 comments
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Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. worksforme The issue cannot be reproduced and things work as intended.

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@hpvd
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hpvd commented Dec 5, 2012

Maybe it would be helpful to track users without using cookie and/or IP addresses:

have a look at (german):
http://www.golem.de/news/tracking-der-verraeterische-fingerabdruck-des-browsers-1212-96167.html
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halfdan commented Dec 5, 2012

Short translation:

  • Student at a university in Berlin tries to find unique browser fingerprints and identify users
  • Solution does not use Cookies (or require them)
  • Final results will be published in his diploma thesis

Basically the same idea as: https://panopticlick.eff.org/

I think it might be an interesting idea to implement this, especially with the new very restrictive laws in the EU for Cookies.

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mattab commented Dec 13, 2012

Piwik already has such algorithm in place, using heuristic based on resolution, browser, etc. (but also using IP address). if you have more specific improvement comment here. Otherwise we dont plan to change this yet.

@hpvd hpvd added this to the Future releases milestone Jul 8, 2014
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