Option to disable/remove campaign level tracking

[romainmenke]

see : https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/issues/95

We would prefer it if campaign related url params added by 3rd parties were not send to Pirsch. Is this something that can be configured in the client side script?

[Kugelschieber]

The easiest method to do that would be to copy the JS snippet and remove the parameters from the URL that's sent to us here: https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch/blob/master/js/pirsch.js#L88

You would then have to host the JS file yourself. I would recommend minifying it as we do in the package.json.

Here is a replacement for line 88 that will remove all query parameters:

"&url=" + encodeURIComponent((location.href.includes('?') ? location.href.split('?')[0] : location.href).substring(0, 1800)) +

[romainmenke]

Although we can make this change (we would also omit referrer) we would prefer not to host our own version.

As an agency we have projects that can last for ±10 years. The benefit of a hosted snippet for Pirsch is that it can be updated by you in case there is an API change.

We are looking for a low maintenance and maximally compliant service to gather minimal usage statistics.

[Kugelschieber]

What's the reason for this feature request? You could also just ignore the UTM panels on the dashboard. I would rather not inflate the script with too many configuration options.

Also, we don't make API-breaking changes. Should we ever rebuild the page view endpoint, we would publish it as /api/v2/... instead of replacing the current one.

[romainmenke]

https://www.cnil.fr/en/google-analytics-and-data-transfers-how-make-your-analytics-tool-compliant-gdpr

the removal of any parameters contained in the collected URLs (e.g. UTMs, but also URL parameters allowing internal routing of the site);

This guideline is why we would like not to send any query params to any 3rd party.

[Kugelschieber]

I'll add an option for it.

[Kugelschieber]

I have added three new options for the scripts that will be made available later today:

• data-disable-query
• data-disable-referrer
• data-disable-resolution

You can simply add them to the script like this:

<script defer type="text/javascript" src="https://api.pirsch.io/pirsch.js" 
    id="pirschjs" 
    data-code="YOUR_IDENTIFICATION_CODE"
    data-disable-query></script>

[romainmenke]

Thank you so much for this @Kugelschieber

We really appreciate that you are open to making this change and for rolling it out so quickly.