Data privacy and sharing

[McFly0101]

Hi, I am learning to use this, but I am concern on data privacy and sharing issues. May I know does the application or plug in make any network requests or send data externally when/after processing?

[mdmintz]

Hi, If you already have a driver that matches your browser (eg. chromedriver 118 for Chrome 118), then no calls are made.

So assuming you already have your matching driver and you've already cloned/installed SeleniumBase, you can disconnect your internet connection and run the offline tests from this folder: SeleniumBase/examples/offline_examples.

Additionally, there's a pytest command-line option: --driver-version="keep", that you can use to keep using your existing chromedriver, even if it doesn't match your Chrome version. (Eg. If you have chromedriver 115 and Chrome 118, then using --driver-version="keep" means no driver will be downloaded.)

When drivers are downloaded automatically, they come from the source:

• chromedriver:
  -- version 114 and older: https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads
  -- version 115 and newer: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/chrome-for-testing/
• msedgedriver: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/webdriver/
• geckodriver: https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

[McFly0101]

Appreciate your quick reply☺️