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Anyone know how they identify the same user? All solution I know generate a unique number and put in cookie. At my app https://hanami.run https://hanami.run I
by kureikain 6y ago
Anyone know how they identify the same user? All solution I know generate a unique number and put in cookie.
At my app https://hanami.run https://hanami.run I don't track user and cannot know if the same users visit our website :-(. I don't want to use cookie and want to get away with GDPR. At the same time, I love to see which visitors repeatly read my website/blog and where they drop so I can optimize my site.
- marvinblum 6y agoFingerprinting. That's what I do for Pirsch (https://pirsch.io/ https://pirsch.io/) and I think they do it in a similar manner. You can check out our source code here: https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/blob/master/fingerprint.go https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/blob/master/finge... or take a look at the Plausible repo.
- A21z 6y agoEven though it may be cookieless, you won’t « get away with GDPR » with fingerprinting.
- kureikain 6y agoIt looks like the finger print only rely on ip/user-agent and I think ip/user-agent are ok to be stored and still GDPR compliance?
- marvinblum 6y agoEverything that can be used to uniquely identify a visitor falls under the GDPR. We don't store IP addresses, so it should be GDPR compliant, but we still need to check that to make the claim.
- kureikain 6y agoOh this is really great. Thanks for that. The code is concise.
- marvinblum 6y agoYeah that's the easy part. It gets more interesting when you get try to filter bots, parse the user-agent and stuff like that.