Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software?

2015-09-27 Thread Karlsen, Jeffrey
It's my understanding that browsers' "do not track" flag does not actually affect Google Analytics in its ordinary usage... which would be counterintuitive but that’s what I'm gleaning from discussions such as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=858839 Though I could me misreading thing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software?

2015-09-27 Thread Stuart A. Yeates
The real question here is whether any analytics tools are ALA Freedom To Read compliant. I'm reasonable confident the answer is no. Cheers Stuart On Monday, 28 September 2015, Esmé Cowles wrote: > I just wanted to chime in to say that this sounds a lot like "tell me how > to track the users who

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software?

2015-09-27 Thread Esmé Cowles
I just wanted to chime in to say that this sounds a lot like "tell me how to track the users who have asked us not to track them?". IMHO, the way to avoid this is to use different kinds of tools for different kinds of analysis. Static log analysis generally doesn't treat users as individuals a