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Client Hints

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Client Hints are being rolled out across a number of browsers and are an alternative the tracking the User Agent, which is particularly useful in those browsers which are freezing the User Agent string.

Installation​

  • npm install @snowplow/browser-plugin-client-hints
  • yarn add @snowplow/browser-plugin-client-hints
  • pnpm add @snowplow/browser-plugin-client-hints

Initialization​

import { newTracker, trackPageView } from '@snowplow/browser-tracker';
import { ClientHintsPlugin } from '@snowplow/browser-plugin-client-hints';

newTracker('sp1', '{{collector_url}}', { 
   appId: 'my-app-id', 
   plugins: [ ClientHintsPlugin() ], 
            // Use ClientHintsPlugin(true) to capture high entropy values
});

Functions​

This plugin does not contain any new functions.

Context​

Adding this plugin will automatically capture the following context:

ContextExample
iglu:org.ietf/http_client_hints/jsonschema/1-0-0