How to verify whether tracking is active or not

  • Resolved Lyk

    (@lyk-1)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hello and thank you for the nice plugin!

    So basically my question is how to verify that tracking is active or not.

    I am also using the Cookie Notice & Compliance for GDPR/CCPA plugin, which sets a cookie named cookie_notice_accepted with a value of true when the user accepts.

    CAOS is set to allow tracking “When cookie has a value (exact match)”, I provide the name of the cookie and the value true.
    I am also using the minimal version, so I would like to know what should change in the page/tracking when the cookie is set.

    I also tried with with the Asyncronous mode and I can see that the analytics js (uploads/caos/[random].js?id=my_ga4_id) is always loaded. Tried to change the cookie name in the CAOS settings with an invalid one, but still I see the .js file.

    My guess would have been that in async mode the .js would not load at all. Not sure if that is true and also have no idea what should happen in the minimal version since the code is inlined in the page.

    Thank you!

    PS: also noticed in the logs that there is a deprecation warning:

    PHP Deprecated: Function utf8_encode() is deprecated in wp-content/plugins/host-analyticsjs-local/includes/admin/class-settings.php on line 456

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  • Plugin Author DaanvandenBergh

    (@daanvandenbergh)

    Hi!

    The JS is always loaded. Until the cookie notice is accepted, no tracking data is sent to Google Analytics. It does send cookieless pings if the consent dialog is declined.

    In short, GA4 and the way it deals with cookie consent differs greatly from GA3.

    Since GA4, CAOS uses Google Analytics’ Consent Framework. You can read more about how it works here.

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