Optional tracking always tracking and placing a cookie

  • Resolved alanmillo

    (@alanmillo)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi,

    The optional tracking feature (https://mc4wp.com/kb/what-is-usage-tracking/), is tracking always regardless of having the tracking checkbox active.

    Is this a bug?, I’ve tried enabling and disabling to make sure it was not an installation issue with no success.

    The cookie that I’ve found and that is not removed regardless of the value of tracking is “_mc4wp”

    Would it be possible to fix it?
    In an attempt to avoid placing the cookie on suers browsers, I’ve tried to remove the following action, which is executed on “MC4WP_Visitor_Tracking” without success.

    ‘mc4wp_form_subscribed’ –> ‘on_form_success’

    My version of the plugin is 3.0.10

    let me know if I can be of any help.

    Thanks
    Alan

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/

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  • Plugin Author Danny van Kooten

    (@dvankooten)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Alan,

    The “usage tracking” checkbox that ‘s in the settings page (and in the article you linked to) actually refers to us tracking your usage of the plugin.

    The cookie that is set is the plugin tracking your visitors after they fill in a form, so that you can use the given data later on for other site functionality. This cookie is only set when someone fills out the form.

    If you still want to disable the cookie altogether – please let me know and I’ll provide you with some sample code.

    Thread Starter alanmillo

    (@alanmillo)

    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi Danny,

    Thanks for your answer. Understood with regards to the “usage tracking” checkbox.

    Given I’m not planning to use the cookie info on any other part of my site, I would like to have your code sample, if you don’t mind, so I don’t need to tell the user about a new cookie being added to the site ;).

    So far the only way I’ve found to disable the functionality was by commenting the call in the plugin, which I really don’t want to do as that will mean having to make sure I make the change everytime I update the plugin.

    Thanks Danny

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