thats really bad, because this plugin is really nice. But it cannot be used in Germany, because here it is against the law to store the visitors IPs 🙁
could you mabe implement a function to hide the last few numbers of the IPs or to hide IPs completely?
If it’s illegal to store the IP then hiding it won’t solve the problem.
As all of the visitor’s code is dependnent on the IP address it would take a major rewrite to use some other identifier to uniquely track the users.
maybe I was not exact enough. it is not illegal to store ips for statistical reasons, but the ips must be anonymised. so the ip address cannot be used to identify a certain visitor.
i guess or at least i interpret our law in this way, that hiding of the last 3 digits of the ips address is enough anonymising. eg when the ip address is shown as 192.168.0.*** in my admin panel.
I understand but the code in the plugin depends on being able to uniquely identify users and we have used the IP address to do this.
Changing the last three digits would break much of the code.
Thats sad. But thanks for the reply. You made a really nice plugin.
Our law is sooo outdated regarding internet stuff… thats so st***d -.-
Thanks. A future version might address this issue, but it isn’t high on the priority list at the moment.
