Re: Manage analytics through tag manager?

On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:23 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:56 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:
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>> > On 2 Jul 2020, at 11:01, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>> > ..for what I'm trying to achieve right now it seems like I'm being
>> asked to jump through a 30cm hoop that's being dangled from the top of a 4
>> storey building.
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>> To be fair, I think the shape and placement of the hoops would've been
>> different if it was made clear(er) from the start that the proposal was to
>> measure outbound traffic for a *limited period*. At least I didn't
>> understand
>> that until this email.
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> Sorry, I thought that was clear as I said in my original message that I
> thought the outbound link tracking would be useful for the project I'm
> working on. On re-reading I see that my wording on that was somewhat less
> than awesome.
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>> Settling on the future analytics needs for postgresql.org sounds like a
>> topic
>> well suited for an unconference style discussion, maybe we'll end up
>> changing
>> nothing but it's worth discussing.
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> Agreed.
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>> What we can do to address concerns with tracking in the meantime is to
>> honor
>> the DoNotTrack header in the site template, and only load GA/GTM in case
>> navigator.doNotTrack isn't set. Something like the (completely untested)
>> attached migth be all we need? The diff also removes the ability to load
>> GA
>> over http, which we clearly shouldn't allow (and since moving the site to
>> all
>> https we don't anyways IIUC).
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> I think we'd also need to check windows.doNotTrack to cover Microsoft
> browsers, but yes, I think that will work with GA.
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Err, that should be window.doNotTrack of course.

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> In GTM you can do it in the config (i.e. through the container settings in
> the management UI). Browsers would still pull the code of course, but then
> any tracking would be disabled.
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