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thornomad / django-hitcount

Django hit counter application that tracks the number of hits/views for chosen objects
http://django-hitcount.rtfd.org
MIT License
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GDPR compliance #74

Open sk-t3ch opened 5 years ago

sk-t3ch commented 5 years ago

Hi, I really like this django add on. However, I've noticed that it has a feature of max hits per IP address, which makes me think that the app tracks hits by IP (i'm yet to go through the source code).

Without asking for permission to track a user by their IP address, this goes against GDPR.

Would it be possible to do with the Session ID cookie instead / is this what it already uses?

Thanks in advance

thornomad commented 5 years ago

You can disable the MAX_HITS_PER_IP address but, as written, the code does store the user's IP address. You would need to make modifications to the source code. I am no longer actively developing new features for this.

sk-t3ch commented 5 years ago

Thank you very much for confirming