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Stop tracking Matomo installation IP/URL/Details #17007

Open jdiderik opened 3 years ago

jdiderik commented 3 years ago

I love Matomo and how it complies to GDPR for my visitors....

BUT: why would you track my server ip, url and installation details during your Version checking?

in /plugins/CoreUpdater/ReleaseChannel.php you add these params:

'piwik_version'   => Version::VERSION,
'php_version'     => PHP_VERSION,
'mysql_version'   => Db::get()->getServerVersion(),
'release_channel' => $this->getId(),
'url'             => Url::getCurrentUrlWithoutQueryString(),
'trigger'         => Common::getRequestVar('module', '', 'string'),
'timezone'        => API::getInstance()->getDefaultTimezone()

Now I get why you would like to track that info to get to know your user-base... I would like to know more about my visitors too, but I just cannot do that without their consent.

In my humble opinion, it would be better to have the options (apart from maybe piwik_version) optional and only added when the installer asks for consent and the admin/installer/maintainer agrees.

mattab commented 3 years ago

Thanks for creating the issue. So far you can disable this tracking by disabling automatic update checks: configure the setting enable_auto_update = 0 within the [General] section of your config/config.ini.php file.

randy-innocraft commented 3 months ago

Hi @jdiderik . Thank you for creating the issue and bringing this to our attention, that's very appreciated. We have reviewed and triaged the problem internally, and we have confirmed it is an issue. Our team will prioritise this, and we will update you on the progress here when we have an update to share. If you have any further information or questions, please feel free to add them here.