Add option to disable app telemetry

[thomasnordquist]

App telemetry is used to automatically detect bugs and measure acceptance.
One should be able to disable the telemetry.

See:
https://github.com/thomasnordquist/MQTT-Explorer#telemetry

[thomasnordquist]

Moved example telemetry from readme:

{ system: { arch: 'x64', platform: 'darwin' },
  appVersion: '0.0.7',
  events: { HELLO_EVENT: [ 1547714886134 ] },
  now: 1547714886135,
  transactionId: '1767d251-f492-4f2c-aa62-88add3acc26b' }
{ errors:
   [ { time: 1547714887921,
       message: 'He\'s dead Jim!',
       stack:
        'Error: He\'s dead Jim!\n    at ./src/tracking.ts.exports.default (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142765:11)\n    at new Promise (<anonymous>)\n    at Object../src/tracking.ts (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142764:1)\n    at __webpack_require__ (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:20:30)\n    at Object../src/index.tsx (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:142618:1)\n    at __webpack_require__ (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:20:30)\n    at ../backend/node_modules/charenc/charenc.js.charenc.utf8.stringToBytes (./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:84:18)\n    at ./mqtt-explorer/app/build/bundle.js:87:10' } ],
  now: 1547714887921,
  transactionId: '53bf9aac-e695-40cc-9a81-b1cf3398843d' }

[thomasnordquist]

@GregoryEAllen no worries, I'm always happy to get error reports. It helps tremendously maintaining good software quality.

I just remove the whole conversation in a few minutes 😇

[pintman]

It would be great to have telemetry turned off by default or at least ask the user which option to choose. Having telemetry turned on by default may cause a GDPR violation in europe. Maybe you can reconsider the default behavior.

[aniston]

Hello @thomasnordquist , lovely APP, but as @pintman pointed out using Telemetry without users consent will go against the EU GDPR rules even if there is a clear mention that telemetry will be taken (although no mention if only in Error cases or even thru normal usage?).

So the question as the OP dated back end of Jan 2019, is this option implemented as of Nov 2020 ?
might be better to keep it off as default and let users turn it on

[1RandomDev]

What MQTT Explorer has telemetry by default and there's no option to turn it off?! Would be great if someone would have told me that before I downloaded it.

[epichub]

the above readme link to #telemetry is not working - the docs does not cover how to turn it off..

[aniston]

the above readme link to #telemetry is not working - the docs does not cover how to turn it off..

@epichub , build it yourself from the source if you have nodejs on your machine, get the source and in src/registerCrashReporter.ts:

• change the http link URL to localhost or comment it out //submitURL: 'http://app-telemetry.t7n.de/app/crash/mqttexplorer',
• also set uploadToServer: false,
• then build or rebuild with yarn build or npm install

hth !