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Track usage of ad blocker eg as plugin #9165

Open tsteur opened 8 years ago

tsteur commented 8 years ago

This could be eg added to Visitor - Software - Plugins. It could be possibly even done in a plugin. I reckon for many websites it would be useful to know how many visitors have an ad block installed.

An ad blocker should be only detected and tracked, there should be no warning etc.

gaumondp commented 8 years ago

That would be very helpful considering that uBlock Origin, Ad Block and Ad Block Plus have been installed more than 22 million times on Chrome alone...

mattab commented 8 years ago

Problem is that, when there is an adblocker, likely Piwik will be blocked as well, so the numbers will be highly inacurrate?

refs #10232

tsteur commented 8 years ago

It depends. Eg we're not blocked by Adblock Plus by default but partially this is true for sure. In such a case people would need to "Whitelabel" piwik.js.

tsteur commented 8 years ago

See http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/adblock-tracking-google-analytics-code-metrics-reports/ and re whether Piwik will be blocked as well http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/adblock-tracking-google-analytics-code-metrics-reports/#comment-1056775

Basically it still gives you more insights then not tracking it.

tsteur commented 8 years ago

Can be easily achieved with custom dimensions / custom variables / events or a plugin (easy to develop). We could test it on our own site at some point to see what the numbers are

forgetso commented 8 years ago

Any request containing "piwik" is blocked by uBlock Origin.

forgetso commented 8 years ago

I actually had to disable uBlock to write these comments.

lorimode commented 8 months ago

Et cela devient quoi ? ---trad google--- And what does that become ?