Ghostery shows Twitter-Button-Tracker

  • Resolved iragraves

    (@iragraves)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    I like the plugin very much – it is really what I have been looking for. However, the main reason I do not want to use official twitter plugins is concerns about tracking (we run a privacy-oriented business).

    Unfortunately, activating “Rotating Tweets” seems to insert code to the site that is identified by Ghostery as tracking code (Twitter Button, https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js). This happens simply when activating the plugin, without even using the widget.

    Is there a way to get rid of this (supposed or real) tracking code? Or at least make it optional?

    Thanks a lot,

    Ira

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  • Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    This is the code used by Twitter to show the Twitter button, but I take your point that it shouldn’t be appearing if it isn’t needed.

    Let me see if it’s possible to make it optional.

    Thread Starter iragraves

    (@iragraves)

    That would be great, thank you for the effort!

    Btw just for other people seeking a solution: I tried to filter the twitter code with the “WP DoNotTrack” plugin, but without success.

    Thread Starter iragraves

    (@iragraves)

    Here is the explanation of the author of “WP DoNotTrack”, which may be helpful:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/twitter-button-via-rotating-tweets-plugin/#post-8338892

    ok, found the reason; rotating tweets’ JS file (wp-content/plugins/rotatingtweets/js/rotating_tweet.js) has code in it that loads the twitter widgets script (no idea why). because the JS is loaded from within JS, it cannot be caught by wp dnt (yet).

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    Have added some code to the development version to ensure that if Do Not Track is not enabled then the Twitter script is not called….

    
if(navigator.doNotTrack != 1) {
   //  The Twitter code
};

    Seems to work in Chrome…

    Will that solve the problem? Or do I need to use something like this.

    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    Just checked with Ghostery in Chrome – and the new code successfully switches the Twitter code off.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by Martin Tod.
    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    After some checking with other browsers, it now reads:

    
if(navigator.doNotTrack != 'yes' && navigator.doNotTrack != 1 && window.doNotTrack != 1 && navigator.msDoNotTrack != 1) {
   //  The Twitter code
};
    Plugin Author Martin Tod

    (@mpntod)

    ‘Do Not Track’ is now respected by the ‘current version’.

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