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Official Android Tracking Library for Mixpanel Analytics
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Opt In event still sent when "trackAutomaticEvents" is set to false #836

Open brandenfung2 opened 1 month ago

brandenfung2 commented 1 month ago

We are obtaining the MixpanelAPI instance using the following call:

 MixpanelAPI.getInstance(applicationContext, getToken(), false)

where trackAutomaticEvents is set to false

However we are still seeing automatic events being sent to our console, specifically we are still seeing the $opt_in event.

Upon further investigation in the Mixpanel Android SDK, it appears that MixpanelAPI.optInTracking() will send this event no matter the trackAutomaticEvents flag via this line: https://github.com/mixpanel/mixpanel-android/blob/f40e1f734cf70b59a912e74994e87b088d3788ac/src/main/java/com/mixpanel/android/mpmetrics/MixpanelAPI.java#L1239

Is there a reason why the opt_in event is not classified as an automatic event? This seems like a bug to me.