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Plot.ly by default will tie in their social services and copy all of your data to other people's computers. I raised this issue with the project maintainers an
by th0ma5 10y ago
Plot.ly by default will tie in their social services and copy all of your data to other people's computers.
I raised this issue with the project maintainers and they stated that the wish of the parent company is for this to remain the default.
So, just a warning to enterprise developers, you have to fiddle with this to turn that off, but without a clear policy statement or a reasonable fork of the project that addresses the privacy and security issues, I've been advocating against use of Plot.ly.
- nicklovescode 10y agoI'm using plotly. Do you have specific technical info here on how to turn it off and how it's sent to them? Do you have your contact with the project maintainers.
- kbaker 10y agoProbably this: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/316 https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/316 see the sendDataToCloud function here: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/f1701614e46d3bdf4fc7a2bfb16dc52d0092f4fe/src/plots/plots.js#L405 https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/f1701614e46d3bdf4fc... There are instructions in the issue link on how to turn this behavior off.
- th0ma5 10y agoYes, this is the issue. I noticed just now they have since tagged this for discussion and also a possible change in version 2.0.
- bicubic 10y agoI like the work they're doing, but their 'as a service' model makes it a nonstarter for pretty much every project I've done; both at home and at work.