Short answer: yes.
Long answer: Yes, but you’re required to use your own proxy to anonymize all data before it’s sent to Google Analytics. CAOS Pro’s Stealth Mode is the proxy you’re looking for.
Early January, 2022 the Austrian watchdog DSB ruled that using Google Analytics is in breach of GDPR, for one simple reason:
- Personally identifiable information is shared with and stored on servers in the US.
This is in breach of Article 44 of the GDPR, because US business can’t within reason comply with the GDPR, due to the CLOUD act.
One of Google Analytics’ answers to this is the Anonymize IP feature, which is essentially a useless feature if the visitor’s browser is still connecting to Google’s own servers (and therefore the IP address is still stored in access logs on that server — in the US)
CAOS Pro fixes this in a few unique ways:
- It downloads gtag.js (depending on your configuration) to your server.
- It routes all routes all requests to Google Analytics through it’s own proxy (the WordPress API or the custom-built, faster, Super Stealth API) and removes all data that might identify an individual.
The Increase GDPR Compliance option enables the following unique features:
- Cookieless Analytics makes sure a unique ID is used each time a visitor is visiting your site, and no cookies are stored in the browser. This unique ID is changed for each user every 14 days to still allow some sort of returning visitors tracking, however limited.
- Stealth Mode makes sure all traffic to google-analytics.com or googletagmanager.com is intercepted and your server is used to send the data to Google’s server, instead of the user’s browser. This makes sure that your visitor’s IP address, User-Agent, or any other system information that might be used to create a fingerprint, is lost.
- Anonymize IP properly anonymizes the user’s IP address, by replacing the last two octets with zero’s, before sending it to Google’s servers.
