Optionally strip dates from data sent to Google Analytics

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Optionally strip dates from data sent to Google Analytics #459

Closed barrucadu closed 6 years ago

barrucadu commented 6 years ago

Some URLs can include dates of birth, which we should not sent to Google Analytics. For example: https://www.gov.uk/state-pension-age/y/age/1991-09-09/male. Previous work implemented optional postcode stripping, so I just copied that but for dates. The regex matches YYYY-MM-DD style dates, with the dashes optional.

Same approach as #435

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barrucadu commented 6 years ago

Good call. I've now mentioned this in #analysis.

barrucadu commented 6 years ago

Tim Leighton-Boyce from the performance analysis community spent Wednesday and Thursday last week on this, and is happy with it.