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Patched Plausible to report top-level URLs from an iframe-sandboxed site

1 source thread · first seen 2022-06

Summary

A user tracking notebooks embedded in iframes found the default tracking reported iframe URLs; because the product is open source they modified it to report the user-facing page URL instead.

Affects
people tracking sites they do not own or sandboxed embeds
Workaround
Modified the open-source code to report the top-level page URL and to exclude their own page views.

Evidence

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“I could fiddle with it a little and could get it to report the top level page user facing URLs”

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