Opt out of selenium manager's telemetry
If you use the selenium-webdriver gem, it will sneakily phone home once every hour whenever you run a browser based feature spec.
Check if you're affected
Check if ~/.cache/selenium/se-metadata.json exists. (It contains a "ttl" timestamp of its last/next anaytics call. You can parse it with Ruby's Time.at.)
Opt out
You can opt out Show archive.org snapshot either globally:
# .bashrc
export SE_AVOID_STATS=true
or project based
# spec_helper.rb
ENV['SE_AVOID_STATS'] = 'true'
To test if it works
- Go offline
- Remove
~/.cache/selenium/se-metadata.json - Run a JS feature spec
- You should no longer see
WARN Selenium [:selenium_manager] Error sending stats to Plausible: error sending request for url (https://plausible.io/api/event)