Strange item in analytics

ICIMOD · September 27, 2023, 10:33am

Hi, I have a strange item in my matomo. Does anyone know what this is?

heurteph-ei · October 3, 2023, 9:07am

Hi @ICIMOD
It seems you track navigation from your own filesystem. You’ll be able to disable (as a setting param) from version 5.0 that will be released soon:

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

JS tracker should not track anything when the protocol is file:// to avoid tracking personal data by accident

opened 02:16AM - 24 Dec 20 UTC

closed 09:15PM - 23 Jan 23 UTC

tsteur

c: Privacy

Use case: Someone downloads a page from your website and stores it locally. T…hen the user opens it and the user will be tracked and the URL might look like ``` file:///C:/Users/myname/AppData/Local/... ``` This way we actually track personal data potentially by accident without knowing. * We would always exclude page urls with this protocol by default * There should be a method to opt out of this feature so you can track these requests if needed. * We create an FAQ to document this behaviour / feature. As this could be seen as a BC break we need to maybe wait for Matomo 5 for this and/or clearly announce this and warn users of this change.