Disable AutoTracking not working

[totomaze]

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Environment *

Run this command in the project folder and fill in their results:

npm ls vue-gtag:
`-- [email protected]

npm ls vue:
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Then, specify:

1. Operating system:
   windows 10
2. Browser and version:
   Chromium 109.0.5414.119

Description *

What are you reporting?
Vue.use(VueGtag, {
pageTrackerPrependBase: false,
pageTrackerEnabled: false,
pageTrackerScreenviewEnabled: false,

config: {
    id: process.env.VUE_APP_ANALYTICS_KEY
}

})

I tried to stop sending a page view after a change of route, but nothing works, It send a page view at each route change
I am working with history mode

Expected behavior

Tell us what you think should happen.
I was hoping the nothing will be send on a route change

Actual behavior

Tell us what actually happens.

A query is sent to GA on every route change. I am not sure if I am missing something in the config to stop the auto page tracker

Reproducible Demo in case of a bug report

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Vue.use(VueGtag, {
pageTrackerPrependBase: false,
pageTrackerEnabled: false,
pageTrackerScreenviewEnabled: false,
config: {
id: process.env.VUE_APP_ANALYTICS_KEY
}
})

The router is in history mode

Demonstrable issues gets fixed faster.

[ArthurOnly]

I faced the same problem today and solved this way:

The problem

I noticed that when i reload my page with

app.use(VueGtag, {
  pageTrackerEnabled: false,
  config: { 
    id: 'xxx',
    params: {
      send_page_view: false,
    },
  },
});

The page view events continued to be sent. I removed the Gtag config from this lib and directly used the default gtag config in my index.html that load the SPA. Even with this, events continued to be sent.

Solution

The solution I found is to change an analytics configuration (datastream) like mentioned here https://support.google.com/tagmanager/thread/51544115/spa-page-view-tracking-sends-event-twice?hl=en. This configuration makes the app send events automatically when history changes. So, the app stops sending events and I manually send with

event('page_view',{
    page_title: `xxxx',
    page_path: to.path,
    page_location: window.location.href,
    page_referrer: from.path,
   ...other params
  })