how to disable tracking

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion. Just save this code into a .php file, zip it up and upload it as a plugin:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: MailPoet Remove tracking
Plugin URI: http://www.mailpoet.com/
Description: Extended functionalities to the free version.
Version: 1.0
Author: MailPoet
Author URI: http://www.mailpoet.com/
License: GPLv2 or later
Text Domain: wysija-newsletters
*/

/*
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/

/**
*
* @param string $site
*/
add_action(‘wysija_replaceusertags’, ‘wysija_remove_tracking’,1,2);

function wysija_remove_tracking(){
remove_all_actions( ‘wysija_replaceusertags’, 11 );
add_action(‘wysija_replaceusertags’, ‘wysija_tracker_replaceusertags’,13,2);
}

function wysija_tracker_replaceusertags($email,$user){
$urls = array();
$results = array();// collect all links in email
if(!preg_match_all(‘#href[ ]*=[ ]*”(?!mailto:|\#|ymsgr:|callto:|file:|ftp:|webcal:|skype:)([^”]+)”#Ui’,$email->body,$results)) return;

$modelConf=WYSIJA::get(‘config’,’model’);

foreach($results[1] as $i => $url){

if( !in_array($url, array( ‘[unsubscribe_link]’, ‘[subscriptions_link]’ , ‘[view_in_browser_link]’ ) ) ){
continue;
}

$email_url = $url;

$args = array();
$args[’email_id’] = $email->email_id;
$args[‘user_id’] = $user->user_id;
if(empty($user->user_id)) $args[‘demo’]=1;
$args[‘urlpassed’] = base64_encode($email_url);
$args[‘controller’] = ‘stats’;

$page_id = $modelConf->getValue(‘confirm_email_link’);
//if it’s a system url that needs privacy we hash it
if(strpos($email_url, ‘[unsubscribe_link]’)!==false){
$args[‘hash’]=md5(AUTH_KEY.'[unsubscribe_link]’.$args[‘user_id’]);
$page_id = $modelConf->getValue(‘unsubscribe_page’);
}

if(strpos($email_url, ‘[subscriptions_link]’)!==false){
$args[‘hash’]=md5(AUTH_KEY.'[subscriptions_link]’.$args[‘user_id’]);
$page_id = $modelConf->getValue(‘subscriptions_page’);
}

$args[‘action’] = ‘analyse’;
$args[‘wysija-page’] = 1;

$mytracker=WYSIJA::get_permalink($modelConf->getValue($page_id),$args);

$urls[$results[0][$i]] = str_replace($url,$mytracker,$results[0][$i]);
}
$email->body = str_replace(array_keys($urls),$urls,$email->body);

}//endfct

Cool!

I have just tried this plugin using 2.6.19 and I confirm it doesn’t work. A test user was tracked on opening the email generated by a WP post. I’m not sure if it was from the image on the post or something else.

In November I asked the MailPoet Premium support about disabling the tracking and linked to this thread. This is what the answered:

MailPoet is distributed as is, we’re sorry but we can’t provide further support on this extra feature.
For now, the only option you have to not track stats is explained on the link you have referred.

However, we’re rebuilding our plugin from scratch, and this will be under our radar of improvements in the future.
You can read more about the new version here – http://www.mailpoet.com/blog/

After this message I disabled the tracking image manually in the plugins file /helpers/mailer.php and this seems to help, that no more new email newsletters are tracked. But the problem is, that old emails still contain personalized URLs and the tracking pixel. So you can’t stop the tracking 100% at the moment.

Thanks @matthias Pabst for the update.