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title: "Enable minimal analytics"
slug: "enable-minimal-analytics"
updated: 2025-04-01T10:23:38Z
published: 2025-04-01T10:23:38Z
canonical: "help.movingimage.com/enable-minimal-analytics"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Enable minimal analytics

## Description

In the VideoManager Pro's Player Generator, you can enable minimal analytics for a specific player. If you are already using the new player, minimal analytics is enabled by default.

This means you can track the number of plays for a video, but all personally identifiable information will be pseudoanonymized.

### Data anonymization

If you enable minimal tracking, the following information will be collected:

| Value | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Title | Remains unmodified |
| Content ID | Remains unmodified |
| VideoManager ID | Remains unmodified |
| Account ID | Remains unmodified |
| Channel ID | Remains unmodified |
| Channel name | Remains unmodified |
| IP | Always remains the same pseudoanonymized value: 9857684659911865564 (can not be reversed + individual users can not be tracked) |
| Location | Unknown |
| User ID | Unknown |
| Device ID | Empty |

### How it works

Minimal analytics will **only** be visible if the [Track user consent for analytics](/v1/docs/user-consent-for-analytics) tracking consent dialogue is **disabled**.

The feature first checks for user consent. If user consent is given via API or consent dialog, minimal tracking will be disabled.

If user consent is given, full [tracking](/v1/docs/user-consent-for-analytics) will be enabled.

To enable minimal analytics, follow these steps:

- Navigate to the Player Generator
- Select the player where you would like to apply your changes
- Select *Additional Settings* and navigate to *Tracking consent dialog/minimal analytics*
- Ensure that *Tracking consent dialog* is **disabled**
- Enable *Minimal analytics*
- Click *Publish changes (*in the middle section) to save your changes

Now, only the information described in the table above will be collected.

> If the tracking consent dialogue is enabled **and** user consent is given via the dialog or API, full tracking will be enabled.
> 
> If **both** tracking consent dialogue **and** minimal analytics are disabled, tracking can be activated using the [Player Javascript API](/v1/docs/user-consent-for-analytics).
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> The player ignores the **DNT flag** in the browser settings i.e. minimal analytics will continue to work even when the DNT flag is enabled by the user.