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Feature Request: Add per-feature opt-in consent options #95522
Description
Feature request
Is your feature request related to a problem?
- Currently we offer an option to Opt in to collecting data.
- However, this is an all or nothing option.
- So it becomes difficult if you want to only allow some features of Posthog to apply consent.
Describe the solution you'd like
- It would be great if you could break down consent by feature.
- For example opting in to session replay only, or rejecting event capture only.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- At the moment, there's no real way to split out different features.
Additional context
Debug info
- [ X ] PostHog Cloud, region and project ID: [please provide, you can find both at https://app.posthog.com/settings/project-details#variables]
- [ ] PostHog Hobby self-hosted with `docker compose`, version/commit: [please provide]
- [ ] PostHog self-hosted with Kubernetes (deprecated, see [`Sunsetting Kubernetes support`](https://posthog.com/blog/sunsetting-helm-support-posthog)), version/commit: [please provide]
Activity
mhornbacher commentedon Sep 5, 2026
Hey @phillram I didn't realize answering the email would open a ticket 😳
To provide some clarity here, it is not all or nothing exactly. There are functionally 3 modes
Webanalytics work.identify()is a no-opNormally this is fine and privacy compliant, just a pain.
Ideally features which are not tied to analytics consent can have their own "functional" or "necessary" GDPR cookie so users can opt-in to things like feature flags without opting into session recording
phillram commentedon Sep 8, 2026
Hey @mhornbacher!
I just opened this for the team as a whole to track, and to brainstorm ideas here on my side. This issue helps us track the efforts and thoughts we have.
Appreciate this feedback too! This makes perfect sense to me.
phillram commentedon Sep 8, 2026
+1 https://us.posthog.com/project/2/support/tickets/71346
mhornbacher commentedon Sep 16, 2026
I am so curious what the company lore is that the main account has the ID of 2 😆 🤔