Maybe I'm missing something here, but in Google Analytics V3 (analytics.js or gtag.js) setting the transport or transport_type to beacon would make the request to google-analytics.com/x/collect be sent using POST, i.e. no GET-parameters would be shown in the request URL.
When using GA4 (and a G- measurement ID) setting this parameter does nothing. This is what my tracking code looks like:
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];
function gtag() {
dataLayer.push(arguments);
}
gtag('js', new Date());
gtag('config', 'G-XXXXXXXXX', {"transport_type":"beacon"});
Am I doing something wrong, or am I simply misinterpreting how the beacon works in GA4? If the latter, is there any way to make GA4 function in a similar manner? What I'd like to achieve is send requests, that look like:
https://www.google-analytics.com/g/collect
As opposed to:
https://www.google-analytics.com/g/collect?param=1¶m_2=2&etc=etc
Hopefully someone'll be able to help me out, as the documentation is very limited ATM.