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If you use Selenium to scrape sites, telemetry may have been collected from you
- nialse 2y agoWhat the actual beep? As someone that works with GDPR on a daily basis, I must say that the cluelessness is astounding! They obviously don’t understand their change’s implications for a company using Selenium and the privacy issues caused. I see a fork in 3..2..1..
- poikroequ 2y agoThe response from the devs is quite sad. They keep parroting over and over that it's GDPR compliant, as if that's all that matters. A tool widely used for automated testing is sending telemetry data to a third party over the internet. A tool that is widely used in private corporate networks, government networks, etc. How hard is that to understand? Make it opt-in, problem solved. Why do they have to be so stubborn about it? It just erodes our trust in them, because what other data collection will they naively implement in the future with no regard for their users privacy?
- pyeri 2y agoIt is NOT GDPR compliant. Consent is the cornerstone of GDPR, every major website made changes to their interface and updated the "Accept Cookies" dialog for this same reason. These guys on the other hand, sneakily injected telemetry in the code which could never have come to light had the OP not raised this issue on github tracker. How can this ever be GDPR compliant?
- poikroequ 2y agoI'm not commenting on whether or not it's GDPR compliant. They're the ones who keep making that claim. Even if it were true, I'm saying that may not be good enough. Users clearly aren't happy and their stubborn response to it all is discouraging, to say the least.
- iwontberude 2y agoThey don't need the metrics in the first place, should instead be pushing testing closer to development as opposed to deployment, and they are turning what used to be a simple tool into something which now is beaconing out like its some enterprise app.