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Ah, I’ve just read further down that document and seen that there is actually a stricter limit for the GET search method. Does anyone know what this rate limit actually is? Do they blacklist you after a while? I think one of my sites seems to have been blacklisted…
Also having this problem. The other=no feed works fine, but isn’t adequate as it only pulls tweets less than a week old. The other=yes feed works at first, but then gives Twitter connection errors after a while.
I implemented caching so I know for a fact that no more than one request per hour could be made to the API, but still getting the connection problem. Yet the documentation says I should be able to make up to 150 unauthenticated requests per hour… https://dev.twitter.com/docs/rate-limiting
Has anyone found a way around this? Or is it a different problem altogether?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [SlimStat Analytics] [Plugin: WP SlimStat] Possible to suppress cookies?WordPress’ own cookies can be disabled by commenting out three lines in wp-comments-post.php (except for the cookies set for registered users, which you wouldn’t want to remove). And if your website has disabled comments anyway (which a few of mine have), then there isn’t even any need to do that.
I agree with you camu, it’s quite difficult, and you have to be picky about which plugins you use. But it’s not impossible – I’m now running several totally cookie-free WordPress sites. Switching from WordPress Stats to WP SlimStat is one of the changes I made to achieve that. And this is going to become more and more common now, as more people start complying with this law.
The way the law has been implemented has been a bit of a mess, as lawmakers had no idea of the scale of the cultural change they were asking for. As a general rule, everyone hates change, and webmasters are no exception, so there is a lot of complaining going on. But I do think that website owners should be honest about cookies and tracking, and until now, many of them have taken it for granted that you don’t have to be honest about them. So once we’ve got over the initial shock of the change this legislation will have a generally positive effect. Once we’re through this, the next stage is to get websites to be honest about third-party scripts…
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [SlimStat Analytics] [Plugin: WP SlimStat] Possible to suppress cookies?Johannes, of course I’m not an expert in German law, but the same transposition deadline applies there. According to Eur-Lex the corresponding law in Germany came into force on 10th May 2012, i.e. 16 days before the UK law came into force… http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:72009L0136:EN:NOT#FIELD_DE
There are plugins which block all cookies on your page if the user has opted out, but they’re extremely scripty, quite a heavy-handed method. Some of them also use third-party scripts like Google APIs, throwing out the window any privacy advantage gained from blocking cookies! Much simpler and cleaner to remove the cookies in the first place, that’s why I thought it should be a simple option in WP SlimStat.
Also, many website owners are choosing to eliminate all cookies set by their website rather than alerting the visitor (not unreasonably – as you said yourself, it is likely to be a deterrent). No point installing plugins to block cookies when you can just remove the cookies in the first place.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [SlimStat Analytics] [Plugin: WP SlimStat] Possible to suppress cookies?Thanks for getting back to me. I realise some of the functionality won’t work without cookies, however there are some cases where the owner of the website would prefer to eliminate cookies (rather than place a warning on the site to comply with EU cookie regulations coming into force).
I think a no-cookies option would be a good selling point – alternatives such as JetPack and Google Analytics don’t give the user any option over the third-party cookies they set.
I will certainly vote for the plugin, thanks.