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# papercups
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j
But, I just checked our site and saw some cookies from you there
I’m shocked to see that, can you explain what is happening please?
d
The second one is not cookie. It is the chat-widget.
I am using papercups, and I self hosted it, When someone self hosts it, their widget-name and host will appear there.
j
Thanks @Deniz Gül but the chat-widget folder has indeed 2 cookies, look at the right panel, one is for posthog and the other named GA maybe Google Analytics?
a
@Jaime Iniesta it looks like that might just be posthog -- it should go away if you add the
disableAnalyticsTracking
config option
j
Thanks, what are you tracking with posthog? Will my clients also have a similar cookie?
I mean, were you tracking just me or also my clients?
a
the only thing being tracked is how often the widget is opened/closed
j
so you are tracking how often our clients open/close the widget, using cookies
a
well, posthog is using cookies, yes -- i'm not sure that their cookie is necessary in our case, i'll take a look to see if we can get rid of it
j
well that goes against one of the core principles in “Why use Papercups”, you were supposed to care for privacy and be cookie free. That’s the main reason we moved to Papercups. I understand that you want to use analytics but you should have warned us before installing Posthog, and no cookies should be used at all (or, you should remove that principle from your pricing page).
Anyway, thanks for everything and good luck, I’m afraid we’ll have to stop using Papercups.
a
we just added the configuration to disable cookies on posthog: https://github.com/papercups-io/chat-window/commit/382ec425ed31a5ddd7ba0179c153be7dd872ad5e
should be gone now!
we were unaware that posthog was using a cookie by default -- we weren't trying to be sneaky, we just needed more analytics on our chat component to debug some issues we were seeing when we got too much traffic
j
Thanks, but I don’t feel safe anymore regarding GDPR using your service. You’re hosted in Europe, you should be aware of this kind of things. If you want to integrate a third party service you need to let your users know, and update https://papercups-eu.io/data-policy
Anyway, good luck!
We’ve removed Papercups from our site. How can I have our account deleted?
a
done!