# Ghost contact IDs

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/ghost-contact-ids/11610>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 9, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/ghost-contact-ids/11610 "2019-11-09T04:36:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![biz-rolodex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/biz-rolodex/32/510_2.png) [@biz-rolodex](https://forum.mautic.org/u/biz-rolodex)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2019, 4:12pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/ghost-contact-ids/11610/5 "2019-11-09T16:12:36Z")

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Okay thanks I admit I didn’t know that. I checked and indeed those “Ghost IDs” I’m mentioning are actually anonymous contacts. But since by default they are hidden from the contact list I never knew about it.

So I typed “is:anonymous” in the filter field and I got a result of “4546 items, 152 pages in total”… makes sense now.

My only question now is, **how can I disable this functionality in Mautic?** I don’t really want to track visitors, I only want to keep identified contacts.

**These anonymous contacts are taking up IDs and space in my database (and also possibly causing server overload)**, and most of them are bots and/or coming from the same IP over and over (see image):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/e/e01f3e25dee86af530b583868b73b5688fc91eb6.png)

Honestly I don’t need this feature in Mautic, that is why I want to disable it.

In my website I already have a solution that keeps traffic logs from visitors in a very efficient way, so I don’t really need Mautic to do that for me.

I only want Mautic to track identified contacts and disable anonymous contacts. Is this possible?

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