Dividing the EnableLinkTracking feature in two Download tracking and Outlink Tracking

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Dividing the EnableLinkTracking feature in two Download tracking and Outlink Tracking #22043

Open Chardonneaur opened 6 months ago

Chardonneaur commented 6 months ago

Currently the EnableLinkTracking encapsulates the download tracking and the outlink tracking. Though convenient, it has a drawback when you want to deploy a custom dimension on just one of those two tracking types. Ideally, we should have one line of tracking per type of action, something like:

enableDownladTracking: for downloads.
enableOutlinkTracking: for outlinks.

atom-box commented 2 months ago

I had a user request this just now.

Is there any way to disable reporting on the automatic download tracking in the Matomo dashboard? Ideally without disabling outlinks.