Question about blog entry cookieless ga4 tracking + firebase

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Hi,i have a question regarding this blog entry

To make it easy lets take the example of the blog with the new user.

Let’s say the new user without consent is coming on a page with two events

  1. page_view
  2. view_item

In the example the cid is written to firebase at the first event (so this event gets “first visit” and “session start”

View_item would be an active user with consent.

BUT: THis only works when the cid can be read at the 2nd event and i don’t get that to work always.

Often the cid can only be read with 2nd or even 3th event but this would result into several events with first pageviews …

Is there a trick that this cannot happen? My firebase is near the server location of stape

I even tried it with the firestore restore variable but maybe i am too stupid for this variable lol

Thank you

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Hi,
any chance to get an tip here how the fs lookup works faster when 2 events are one the same page ?

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Hi @Daniel-NF ,

I have the same problem. I also tried to implement the cookieless tracking as described in the Stape blog post. I’m running into the issue that in certain scenarios, the Firestore Write Tag doesn’t write as quickly as the GA4 Tag tries to fetch the data. Unfortunately, I haven’t found a solution for this yet.

It’s quite frustrating that the blog suggests reaching out to support, only to be told that they aren’t responsible for this issue. Have you found any solutions yet?