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[ClickTracking] cookie persistence after logout
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Author: M8R-udfkkf

Description:
The "clicktracking-session" cookie on the en-wiki remains the same before (anonymous), during (logged in), and after logout. This allows the tracking of a user after logout until they have cleared their cookies. It also allows the correlation of logins from "different" users in the same browser session.

The clicktracking-cookie should also be listed in privacy policy:
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy

For how long is clicktracking data kept and what is its purpose (wikipedia doesn't have advertising...so for whom are the analytics)?

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Severity: normal

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:11 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-ClickTracking.
• bzimport set Reference to bz34794.
• bzimport created this task.Feb 29 2012, 1:59 PM
MarkAHershberger added a comment.Feb 29 2012, 5:45 PM

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Click_stats_tracker_requirements

• RobLa-WMF added a comment.Feb 29 2012, 7:06 PM

Diederik, could you look into this one?

• bzimport added a comment.Aug 21 2012, 7:23 PM

M8R-udfkkf wrote:

Any progress? It's not hard to fix...just delete the cookie on logout along with the other cookies.

ori added a comment.Aug 27 2012, 9:26 AM

Fixed in Gerrit #21554.

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