Link plugin logs visitor IPs and cookies by default
Click tracking stores visitor IP addresses and sets cookies by default, with no easy way to turn it off for simple redirects.
1 public report · first reported 6 October 2026 · last reported 6 October 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners who use the plugin only for simple affiliate redirects and click counts report that it records far more visitor data than they need. Click records can hold IP addresses, referrers, user agents and country, tracking is switched on by default, IP anonymisation is off, and old records are never trimmed. Cookies with a one-year lifetime are set even in simple click-counting mode. Teams that only want to redirect a URL and count clicks, especially those with privacy obligations, feel forced to rebuild their own tools. There is an opening for a minimal, privacy-first redirect and click counter that logs nothing beyond a count unless the owner asks for more.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
PrettyLinks – Affiliate Link Management, URL Shortener, Link Cloaking, Tracking & Branded Short Links.
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Who has this problem
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