Can we avoid Matomo Standalone UI being blocked by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen [Please leave a comment if you experience this issue]

[tsteur]

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refs https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-for-wordpress/issues/339

see comment in https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-for-wordpress/issues/339#issuecomment-1029342598

A user told us that removing the query string "?module=CoreHome&action=index&idSite=1&period=range&date=last30" in the link from the wordpress menu still lead to a warning but it is not blocking anymore.

Goal of this issue is to confirm that by removing those parameters the UI is not fully blocked and people can still navigate to it. We can test this eg using Browserstack.

This would be a small workaround for https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-for-wordpress/issues/339 which we would still aim to fix completely.

[lance-matomo]

Since we have had no feedback on this can it be closed @tsteur

[tsteur]

@lance-matomo we would need to test if it's still a problem and if it's resolved we could close it. See https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-for-wordpress/issues/339 for more information on the issue. This could be a higher impact issue if our app is still blocked on MS Edge (4-5% marketshare, not too big). We could close it though and keep #339 .

[aguirard]

I experience this issue on multiple websites. Using latest Edge browser.

[philippze]

When we use the direct link

/wp-content/plugins/matomo/app/index.php

we can access the page. However, when we click on the link "reporting" in the administration, the page is still blocked by the Microsoft Defender. We ran all updates yesterday and currently have the plugin version 4.14.2.