746092 - Implement DNT

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Mozilla Reps Graveyard :: reps.mozilla.org, task)

Description

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Since webtrends doesn't honor the DNT header, we should detect it ourselves and skip the call to webtrends if it is enabled.

Comment 1

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/remo

https://github.com/mozilla/remo/commit/1c286d8cf7b57ee556ccac792631d75ca8d401b4
[fix bug 746092] Implement DNT.

Comment 2

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

According to the Data Governance & Privacy group DNT should not affect analytics data collection.

Comment 3

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

Good news! 

Ben, are we waiting something more? otherwise can I close the bug?

Comment 4

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

The implementation on ReMo is not correct.

A user setting DNT should not turn off webtrends or other internal analytic tools.

Comment 5

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

I would argue that webtrends it's third party, despite the fact that mozilla is using the collected data. I as a user want to visit mozilla properties and no third party should know about it, given that I have DNT on. 

I would love to hear more opinions on this.

Comment 6

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Asking Alina for expanded clarification on this. Will post response.

Comment 7

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

We will keep the DNT implementation in reps.m.o 

Thanks Ben for contacting Metrics.

Comment 8

[Ben (:bensternthal)]

Just adding a note here so we have the record outside of the email discussion.

Quoted from sid/stacy from privacy:

"Mozilla sites implementing DNT may continue to load/use webtrends regardless of DNT setting."


My Two cents:

"Webtrends does not re-sell our data or share with any 3rd parties (makes sense as we pay them) according to the privacy legal webtrends folks.

So for ReMo I think ultimately it's your team's call (or whomever consumes the metric reports) and is dependent on how important the analytics/traffic data is for you (for example on mozilla.org the analytics data is hugely important)."

Comment 9

[Aditya Jalgaonkar [:Adi_J]]

would this be a [qa-] ?

Comment 10

[Giorgos Logiotatidis [:giorgos]]

To verify this please:

1. Set DNT to 0 (off) on your browser
2. Visit reps-dev.m.o 
3. The file tracker-full-min.js should be loaded 

Second run

1. Set DNT to 1 (on) on your browser
2. Visit reps-dev.m.o
3. The file tracker-full-min.js should not be loaded


Thanks

Comment 11

[Aditya Jalgaonkar [:Adi_J]]

Verified, and file does not load during DNT  = 1