Use pre-existing session ID to track users #3195
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With the new cookie laws in the EU, it's getting a lot harder to track users. There have been changes already, but what I'm proposing will effectively make sure piwik can almost always be used.
One of the parts of the new law is that so called essential cookies don't need permission. Every site with a login system will be able to use a session cookie, since it's essential to the functionality of the site. If piwik were to use that session cookie, it wouldn't need to set its own. At the moment multiple cookies are set, but having something is a lot better than nothing. Of course people can still opt out.
I don't know if this is even possible, but it would be a big plus for piwik.
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