Sets anonymizeIp to true in GA snippet #2219
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nice... though I think it'd be worthwhile having a link to Google's docs about IP Anonymization.
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en
Explains how it works with some useful additional links.
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| We use `analytics.js` rather than the newer `gtag.js` as | |||
| [it's faster and supports tasks and plugins](https://github.com/philipwalton/analyticsjs-boilerplate/issues/19#issuecomment-333714370) | |||
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| Starting with version 8 we, by default, <a href="https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052?hl=en">anonymizse IP addresses</a>. | |||
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anonymize typo here 🤓
Also - should use markdown style links, not HTML ones I think
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| By default Google Analytics records the full IP address of a user visiting the site, but | ||
| that full IP address is never available to the Google Analytics property admin. | ||
| By anonymizing the IP address you can make your site more GDPR-compliant as a | ||
| full IP address can be defined as PII (publicly identifiable information.) |
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sorry another thing... my fault as this was copied from my comment... but this should actually be personally identifiable information (PII)
REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_data
| By default Google Analytics records the full IP address of a user visiting the site, but | ||
| that full IP address is never available to the Google Analytics property admin. | ||
| By anonymizing the IP address you can make your site more GDPR-compliant as a | ||
| full IP address can be defined as PII (publicly identifiable information.) | ||
| full IP address can be defined as PII (personally identifiable information.) | ||
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sorry, last nit-pick and then we're good. There's 2 line breaks after this section and should be just 1 to be consistent.
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nit-picking is why we're here 👍
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Another level of privacy might be to respect the DoNotTrack signal of browsers. In that case, the code would be wrapped in a conditional: var dnt = navigator.doNotTrack || window.doNotTrack || navigator.msDoNotTrack;
if (dnt !== 'yes' && dnt !== '1') {
window.ga = function () { ga.q.push(arguments) }; ga.q = []; ga.l = +new Date;
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto'); ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true); ga('set','transport','beacon'); ga('send', 'pageview');
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thanks @TheDancingCode - the DoNotTrack has actually been deprecated now.
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closes #2212