Ticket #1221 (closed Bug: invalid)

Opened 23 months ago

Last modified 23 months ago

Live Visitor! still shows IP althought new plugin AnomynizeIP is active

Reported by: jimbo Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone: Piwik 0.6
Component: Core Keywords:
Cc: Sensitive: no

Description

Live Visitor! still shows IP althought new plugin AnomynizeIP is active

Change History

Changed 23 months ago by hebbet

that is what AnomynizeIP does: before writing the IP into the database it removed by default the latest octett from the ip. that is the ip of google bot: 66.249.65.177 Piwik will replace the 177 through 0 will look like: 66.249.65.0

In my LiveVisitors all IPs are ending with .0

if you want to anonymize more parts of the IP: Open config/global.ini.php with a texteditor, search for ip_address_mask_length = 1 and change the 1 to a number between 0-4

Changed 23 months ago by jimbo

OK, you're right, I was missing the bit with how to config AnonymizeIP :-)

Is there any documentation about the side effects in Piwik and its plugins if I set the value to 4?

Thank you for your fast help :-)

Changed 23 months ago by hebbet

when you anonyize more parts of the IP the difference between the counted unique visits and the real unique visits is getting higher.

I my opionion it is enough to remove the last part of the IP because you can't find out the real IP of the visitor. So the default setting should be the best for privacy with correct tracking data.

Changed 23 months ago by vipsoft

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to invalid
  • milestone set to 1 - Piwik 0.6

hebbet: Thanks for jumping in to answer jimbo's questions.

Note: See TracTickets for help on using tickets.