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GDPR Consent #2

Closed Fi-5 closed 4 years ago

Fi-5 commented 4 years ago

When executed, the speedtest.exe requires GDPR consent. It remembers it within user security context under which it was executed. Unfortunately, PRTG context is different from normal user. There is a flag to accept GDPR. To fix this, change line 147 to

$params = '--accept-gdpr '

I am not sure about legal consequences, but this is the only way I managed to get it working.

OzRocky commented 4 years ago

It seems that the extra GDPR requirement only comes up if you are in the EU, hence we completely missed it here in the land of Oz. :-)

I suspect that GDPR would insist that the user has to accept Ookla's Privacy Agreement, so we probably need to come up with a way of alerting users in the EU about this requirement.

In the meantime, you can append --accept-gdpr to line 177:

$params += "--format=json --precision=$($precision) --accept-license --accept-gdpr 2>&1"

This of course assumes that you have agreed to Oookla's Privacy Policy at https://www.speedtest.net/about/privacy We'll add the Ookla URL's to the top of the code to alert users to them.

Both --accept-license and --accept-gdpr really only need to run once by PRTG for it to stick, but it doesn't seem to matter if they remain.

r.

greiginsydney commented 4 years ago

Close with merge #3