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When including a Google Analytics ID in the default Flowplayer settings the google analytics tracking script is added automatically with jQuery.getScript when the Flowplayer Scripts load. Would it be possible to update the logic so that the Google Analytics script is only added when a user first interacts with a video? Or conditionally so that we can manually add the GA script ourselves once the user has accepted tracking cookies per GDPR compliance?
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Hello Allyn,
could you please check if just setting anonymizeIp to true would not be enough already?
Thanks,
Martin
We have to use a no drop cookie policy so anonymizeIp would not be enough. Cookies should only drop if the user has accepted.
Hello Allyn,
I guess you are using some dialog where you ask the user to agree to the policy. If so, then perhaps it lets you execute JavaScript once the user has agreed. So you can set a JavaScript global flowplayer.conf.analytics variable to your Google Analytics ID that way. But you still have to remember he agreed and set that variable on all further pageloads.
The Google Analytics ID in FV Player would have to remain empty and the above would be the only way to set it.
The downside if that user would have to reload the page for this to take effect. You would also have to set that variable before FV Player loads.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi Martin,
Thanks for the recommendation. The page has already loaded when the user gets the option to accept the policy. We ended up not using the Google Analytics tracking built into the player and added our own tracking events. Perhaps in a future release you guys can implement something in the flowplayer settings to exclude the GA tracking script in case it already exists or needs to be conditionally loaded?
Hello Allyn,
thank you for the suggestion, I put it up on our list of bugfixes to do.
Thanks,
Martin
