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New Privacy feature: "Disable all tracking cookies" (EU Privacy regulation update) #2772
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Also (maybe this needs a new ticket but would be nice to do at same time)
So I think it's just a matter of adding a FAQ at least, explaining how to change cookielifetime to a max of 30 days (for example, based on after how long raw visitor logs are deleted).
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Law went live in the UK on May 26th so we need to add this feature in the next release. |
(In [6387]) Fixes #2772
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Hello, I would like to ask about disabling cookies and it's impact on the reports, There is methods to create fingerprints for visitors without using cookies, and it's over 90% accurate for millions of users, for small websites that woud be much more accurate in term of probabilities. |
Hello, Thanks for replay, i have read the impact before commenting the post, and this is why i thought that saving the information in the db would be more efficient. |
You would be very kind if you answer me :) i would really appreciate as i have a project going same way and without using cookies and i would like to know if this could be the solution. |
not sure I understand the question correctly. Maybe you can ask the question in this forum: http://forum.piwik.org/list.php?15 - Someone may reply to it there, thanks! |
if reports are affected by disabeling cookies, because there is information saved in thoese cookies, so why not to save this relevant information in the DB if we still can identify every Browser uniquely to match the data stored in the DB with that Browser (visitor) |
Discussed in forum post New EU Privacy regulation: we need an "opt-in" for statistics cookies.
Proposal:
piwikTracker.disableCookies()
in the JS snippet, see Improve Javascript Tracking Code admin screen: asynchronous code, other options #1845Another idea is to add a Setting in addition to the JS customization. The setting when enabled would hide all reports that will not work after stop using cookies (Days since visit, unique visitors, etc.). But the overhead of adding a setting does not sound worth the benefit of less UI clutter... especially since this law is really extreme and Piwik users are doing a lot better by default in terms of privacy protection!
Useful & quite easy feature, so good one anyway, in line with our fight for better Privacy to all.
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