On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 08:03:28PM +0000, DSpace Technical Support wrote: > Hi Julia, > > Yes, if a user opts out of Google Analytics tracking then their visits will > not be recorded in Google Analytics. This was added to align with privacy > regulations like GDPR, as those regulations require an ability to opt-out of > any non-required "tracking" cookies. As the Google Analytics tracking cookie > is not required to make DSpace function, users are able to opt-out of it. > > The logic for this is all in the "google-analytics.service.ts" > class<https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/blob/dspace-8_x/src/app/statistics/google-analytics.service.ts> > in the frontend. > > Tim
This might be an opportune moment to underscore what that means: there are sizable jurisdictions in which the ability to easily render download statistics incomplete is a legal requirement. Together with the tremendous growth in bot traffic, this ought to call the whole practice of download counting seriously into question. We need another way to demonstrate the value of repository content. We need to measure that which tells us what we want to know, not that which is easy to (mis)measure. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 library.indianapolis.iu.edu ORCiD: 0000-0002-9558-3768 -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/aYTcr_v3r7nlCuoA%40iu.edu.
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