Enable **privacy-friendly** web analytics in your Vue.js 3.x application with our official plugin.
[Wide Angle Analytics](https://wideangle.co) is powerful, strictly-GDPR compliant Google Analytics alternative.
# How to get started
You can enable Wide Angle Analytics in your Vue.js projects in just few steps. No complex configuration needed as our sane defaults give you reliable and privacy centric deployment out of the box.
1. Go to [Wide Angle](https://wideangle.co) website, create an account. You can create free 14-day trail. No Credit Card is required. [Learn more.](https://wideangle.co/documentation/create-account)
2. [Create new Site](https://wideangle.co/documentation/create-and-configure-site) and activate it.
3. Install `wideangle-vuejs` plugin in your Vue application.
suppressDnt | Should script ingore Do Not Track browser setting. If not enabled, not events will be sent if user's browser has DNT enabled | :x: | false | true
includeParams | An array of query parameters that can be passed as part of tracking event. By default only `utm_*` and `ref` parameters are passed in the event | :x: | `[]` | `['sessionId', 'offset']`
excludePaths | An array of URL paths that should not trigger default events such as page view, page leave | :x: | `[]` | `['^/wp-admin/.*', ]`
ignoreHash | If enabled, change in the URL fragment will not trigger page view event | :x: | false | true
Site has to have these event enable in Wide Angle Analytics configuration prior to usage. Otherwise the tracker script will not sent these events. Consult [official documentation](https://wideangle.co/documentation/tracking-custom-actions) regarding how to enable event handling.
By default, Wide Angle Analytics does nore require consent thanks to its privacy-first, anonymous tracking and principaled approached to compliance.
However, you have additional toggles should you wish to control consent, either in **Opt-In** or **Opt-Out** mode.
## Opt-Out by default
If the visitors browsers has `DoNotTrack` setting enabled in the browser, it will be understood as opt-out and not tracking events will be issued.
You website can't overwrite this behaviour by specifying `suppressDnt` setting.
```javascript
app.use(WideAngle, {
siteId: "8D27G3B9ACA01F4241",
suppressDnt: true
});
```
##Opt-In or Opt-Out based on Cookie
Wide Angle can be configure to handle presence of a cookie, or a cookie with specific value, as an implicit consent. Lack of the cookie will be handled as implicit opt-out.
Example configuration with cookie marker, expecting cookie name `WAA_CONSENT` with value `true`:
```javascript
app.use(WideAngle, {
siteId: "8D27G3B9ACA01F4241",
consentMarker: "WAA_CONSENT=true"
});
```
## Programmatic consent
The Wide Angle serving offers two additional methods, which allow for recording tracking consent:
-`recordConsent(subjectId: String): void`, and
-`revokeConsent()`
Calling above methods on `waa` service will overwrite other consent mechanism (ie. DoNotTrack, and cookie marker).
