Add to Docs: Remove Tracking from gravatar
This should be mentioned somewhere in the docs, I think it is about time we create and start updating an FAQ somewhere.
----- Original message -----
From: Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net>
To: mailman-users@mailman3.org
Subject: [MM3-users] Re: Tracking from gravatar
Date: Thursday, February 14, 2019 6:51 PM
On 2/14/19 2:31 PM, worik wrote:
> Privacy badger reports one tracker (for which it disables cookies) on my
> Mailman installation. It is:
>
> secure.gravatar.com
>
> What is this for and how do I get rid of it?
If you go to
<https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/>
and look around the archives you will see that all users have some sort
of graphic image associated with them. In many cases such as yours, the
image is just a rudimentary silhouette, but others have a picture or
other graphic. Those are things the user has published at gravatar.com.
You can disable them by setting
GRAVATAR_SECURE_URL = ''
in your local settings. See
<https://github.com/twaddington/django-gravatar>
Setting the URL to the null string is not completely satisfactory as
there will still be a 'missing image' where the image used to be, but it
should remove references to secure.gravatar.com.