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Track usage of ad blocker eg as plugin #9165

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tsteur opened this issue Nov 4, 2015 · 8 comments
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Track usage of ad blocker eg as plugin #9165

tsteur opened this issue Nov 4, 2015 · 8 comments
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c: New plugin For features that probably will not be added to Matomo, but could be implemented as plugins. Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc.
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tsteur commented Nov 4, 2015

This could be eg added to Visitor - Software - Plugins. It could be possibly even done in a plugin. I reckon for many websites it would be useful to know how many visitors have an ad block installed.

An ad blocker should be only detected and tracked, there should be no warning etc.
@tsteur tsteur added Enhancement For new feature suggestions that enhance Matomo's capabilities or add a new report, new API etc. c: New plugin For features that probably will not be added to Matomo, but could be implemented as plugins. labels Nov 4, 2015
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gaumondp commented Nov 4, 2015

That would be very helpful considering that uBlock Origin, Ad Block and Ad Block Plus have been installed more than 22 million times on Chrome alone...

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mattab commented Nov 25, 2015 •
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Problem is that, when there is an adblocker, likely Piwik will be blocked as well, so the numbers will be highly inacurrate?

refs #10232

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tsteur commented Nov 26, 2015

It depends. Eg we're not blocked by Adblock Plus by default but partially this is true for sure. In such a case people would need to "Whitelabel" piwik.js.

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tsteur commented May 6, 2016

See http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/adblock-tracking-google-analytics-code-metrics-reports/ and re whether Piwik will be blocked as well http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/adblock-tracking-google-analytics-code-metrics-reports/#comment-1056775

Basically it still gives you more insights then not tracking it.

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tsteur commented May 6, 2016

Can be easily achieved with custom dimensions / custom variables / events or a plugin (easy to develop). We could test it on our own site at some point to see what the numbers are

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Any request containing "piwik" is blocked by uBlock Origin.

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I actually had to disable uBlock to write these comments.

@mattab mattab modified the milestones: Long term, Mid term Dec 5, 2016
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Et cela devient quoi ?
---trad google---
And what does that become ?

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