Hello @david.hamner,
I understand and agree that Purism’s implementation of Matomo Campaign Tracking preserves individuals’ privacy. However, it is evidently clear that readers want the freedom to contribute to such analytics or not while accessing the blog posts, based on this poll and various posts by community members, including myself. Here is just one of many examples:
Such a choice is not offered by Purism; since June 23rd, 2022, readers must accept blog post links with Matomo Campaign Tracking’s URL parameters, which fails to respect the users’ right to freedom and remains in direct contradiction with the Specific Social Purpose. In place of this violation, community members such as myself have taken on the responsibility of respecting readers’ right to freedom by additionally providing “clean” links to the blog posts.
The correct resolution is for Purism to provide two links to the same blog post: one with Matomo Campaign Tracking; and one without. This way, readers interested in providing analytics are free to do so, while those who prefer not to contribute analytics are still able to access the blog post without issue. This would truly respect users’ rights to freedom and fully align with the Specific Social Purpose written in Purism’s Articles of Incorporation.
Frank