Download tracking fired... without actual download

Hi all,

for every <a> tag linking to a non-HTML files (pdf, mp3, etc), it happens to me that matomo fires the download tracking if I click on the link with the right mouse button, without actually downloading the file.

Does it happen to you guys as well?

Hi,

That is in fact intentional. A very long time ago, people noticed that right click β†’ open in new tab (or download) was not tracked and as there is no way to detect those, it was decided to track all right clicks:

And I don’t think anything changed since then.

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