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1. sleepy+v9[view] [source] 2018-09-19 15:28:20
>>Adriaa+(OP)
"We don't use cookies or collect any personal data."

IP-address is considered personal data. So when the browsers visits a page with the JS, the IP-address of the user is transferred to your server. So that means the website I am visiting is sharing my IP-address with a third-party (you).

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2. xrisk+ba[view] [source] 2018-09-19 15:32:13
>>sleepy+v9
The IP address isn't stored though.
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3. sleepy+sa[view] [source] 2018-09-19 15:33:26
>>xrisk+ba
I don't think that is relevant. What matters is that it is transferred to a third-party. And regardless if it is stored in a database, the servers are still processing the data (and maybe storing the log of it).
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4. Lyndsy+cl[view] [source] 2018-09-19 16:50:50
>>sleepy+sa
How would you do analytics without the IP address being "transferred to a third party"? Outside of self-hosting, either the user's browser is going to be making a request to the analytics provider (and therefore exposes their IP), or you're going to have to have some sort of proxy mechanism on the site's server that strips that information and sends it from there.

Am I missing something?

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