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electerious / Ackee

Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.
https://ackee.electerious.com
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Enhancing fallback referrer #300

Open raphaelbernhart opened 2 years ago

raphaelbernhart commented 2 years ago

Problem As many apps refer via a referrer parameter in the url called ref but ackee uses source as the parameter this leads to many refs untracked.

Solution: Create a alias of the source param called ref so if any app referrs via the ref param it will also get tracked.

Ik that there is a fallback referrer but this does not catch all refs.

I see if I have some spare time to create a PR. :)

electerious commented 2 years ago

We already had support for ref, but I've removed it: https://github.com/electerious/Ackee/issues/169#issuecomment-753495016

The problem was that it's overwriting the referrer, but I agree that supporting ref is a good idea. Especially because some browsers are sending an empty referrer. I need to check how the current implementation works. It should still use referrer even available. ref shouldn't be able to overwrite referrer.