Basic interaction analysis

[mrsimpson]

In order to know how and whether someone is using the app at all, we should do some very basic anonymous tracking.

For

• Visits
• User input changes

We shall do everything in order to avoid a need for consent

• No Cookie
• No storage of personal data (anonymize the IP)

[mrsimpson]

We might as well utilize a custom anonymized version of Google Analytics.
E. g. this may be a good start: Hash the IP as identifier

[mrsimpson]

https://github.com/MatteoGabriele/vue-gtag looks like the perfect tool for the job:

• option to anonymize the IP
• configure the tracking
• vue3 composition support
• ability to track all routes when using vuerouter

=> if we passed the inputs values to the route (debounced on changing the input) we should actually be able to trackhow the tool's being used with quite low effort

[mrsimpson]

For the sake of simplicity, I added google analytics with the anonymize_ip property set

[mrsimpson]

Look like in Version 4 of Google Analytics (GA4), ip addresses are not being stored anymore and anonymization is not necessary

In Google Analytics 4, IP anonymization is not necessary since IP addresses are not logged or stored.

I consider this working now and compliant to GDPR

[mrsimpson]

Hm – seems not to be sufficient: https://datenschutz-am-bodensee.com/google-analytics-4-tracking-ohne-cookies/ . Maybe we just have to build something on our own.

@jschirrmacher do you have a matomo running somewhere (containerized on oracle cloud)?

[mrsimpson]

I removed GA for now. Checking https://www.digital-affin.de/blog/privacy-friendly-analytics/ for alternatives if you don't have matomo up and running already

[jschirrmacher]

I don't have anything like this yet. But it should not be too difficult to set it up IMO. I'm going a small tour today, but after that, I'll try.

[mrsimpson]

For Matomo, there's a vue plugin as well: https://github.com/AmazingDreams/vue-matomo

[mrsimpson]

Running now anonymized in On-Premise Matomo

[mrsimpson]

Added event tracking in #89 and opt-out in #90 .