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sputr on June 4, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Analytics Without Google

Annoyed with cookie consent on your page?

Easy: use a 1st party self-hosted tracker (matomo/piwik), anomnize last digits of IP, respect DNT and provide an optout (matomo provides an embeddable widget) on your privacy policy page.

And bam, no legal need for cookie consent OR notification! No popup at all! And you still get perfectly usable statistics for most applications.

kevingrahl on June 4, 2020 [–]

I’m no expert here but wouldn’t that go against the E-privacy Directive 2009/136/EC, according to which you must:

Receive users’ consent before you use any cookies except strictly necessary cookies?

JeanMarcS on June 4, 2020 | [–]

It seems that there is currently no clear answer to this [0].

Couldn’t find the forum post it’s referring to.

[0]: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/15425#issuecomme...

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