Automattic / Automattic/jetpack
Facebook adds views when sharing a post on the WordPress.com Personal plan
- Dominant language
- PHP
- Stars
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Description
### Impacted plugin
Jetpack
### Quick summary
When a user shares a post to Facebook, even if the Facebook post containing the share is private, Jetpack adds visits and views to the post. I was able to replicate this issue on the Personal plan.
### Steps to reproduce
1. Publish a post. Make sure it's set to post only, so no email notifications are triggered.
2. Share the post on Facebook. Set the Facebook post privacy to "Only me".
3. Go back to the site. Give it some time for the stats to update.
4. Check the stats for the post and Facebook referrers.
### Site owner impact
Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users
### Severity
Minor
### What other impact(s) does this issue have?
No revenue impact
### If a workaround is available, please outline it here.
Context: 9466735-zd-a8c
### Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)
Simple
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue on a WordPress.com Simple site using the Jetpack plugin and a Facebook post set to “Only me.” Trace the stats and Facebook referrer handling to identify why the private share is counted; done means the private share no longer adds visits, views, or Facebook referrers.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- php, wordpress
- Domain
- analytics
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100