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Do you really need to know which pages a particular user visits, or just which pages are visited frequently. The latter is easily gathered from web server logs
by gpm 5y ago
Do you really need to know which pages a particular user visits, or just which pages are visited frequently.
The latter is easily gathered from web server logs, the former sounds like a case of "I want to do this bad thing (spying on users) for good reasons", and the law only cares that it's a bad thing, not about your reasons (or arguably it does care slightly about your reasons, but not in enough detail to accommodate your use case). Laws being rather blunt tools and reasons being rather hard to divine.
- jefftk 5y agoYou might want to know, in aggregate, which paths users take through your site so you can make it better. This requires cookies, and the cookies are not, in my reading, essential for the site to function.
- gpm 5y agoYes... Agreed on both points. You can get a bit of that via referrers, but not as much as you would like.