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Track how many visitors use/set "do not track" and "opt out" #8200

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hpvd opened this issue Jun 24, 2015 · 5 comments
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Track how many visitors use/set "do not track" and "opt out" #8200

hpvd opened this issue Jun 24, 2015 · 5 comments
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duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.

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@hpvd
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hpvd commented Jun 24, 2015

Would be very helpful for good statistics to have the amount of visitors

  • whoes browser send "do not track"
  • how many users actively use the "opt out"
@tsteur
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tsteur commented Jun 25, 2015

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@gaumondp
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Like the idea too, even if it looks weird to track people saying "DNT" to us...
:)

We have to make sure that this data is always anonymised and add a note about it in #6196 (PRIVACY.md)

@mattab mattab added the Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. label Jul 15, 2015
@mattab mattab added this to the Mid term milestone Jul 15, 2015
@mattab mattab added the Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. label Jul 15, 2015
@johnmaguire
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Google tracks users with "Do Not Track" by default, however you can disable it, and you can also track, while disabled, how many visitors had DNT enabled. (see http://www.outfox.com/do-not-track-for-google-analytics/)

From reading the donnottrack.us website, it sounds like Piwik might theoretically be compliant with Do Not Track (even while tracking visitors) so long as it's not tracking cross-domain: http://donottrack.us/cookbook/

I wonder if Do Not Track support should actually be disabled by default in this case?

@mattab mattab added duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. and removed Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. labels Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
@mattab mattab removed the duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. label Dec 5, 2016
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rubo77 commented Jul 3, 2018

I think this is a very important request:

If you install matomo on your website to get a reasonable statistic about your visitors. It is pure nonsense not to count those users with a "do-not-track" mark.

Instead those users should be counted anonymously without IP and without any information about the user. Just a counter, that there was someone on the page.

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mattab commented Jul 1, 2019

Thanks for the suggestion. Marking as duplicate of #12001

@mattab mattab closed this as completed Jul 1, 2019
@mattab mattab added the duplicate For issues that already existed in our issue tracker and were reported previously. label Jul 1, 2019
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