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BullyWiiPlaza
BullyWiiPlaza

Reputation: 19215

Enabling Do Not Track

Is there a way to enable the "Do not track" option for selenium using chromedriver?

None of the command line switches seem to help and this website says that the option is disabled when run with chromedriver even though my regular Chrome profile has it turned on. I want to use a temporary profile and not load my existing one though.

Suggestions? Can the option be set automatically?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2478

Answers (3)

Trevor Elwell
Trevor Elwell

Reputation: 189

@pynterest's answer above works in Python. For those of you who wish to confirm this try: 

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
no_track = {"enable_do_not_track": True}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", no_track)
b = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
b.get('https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-do-not-track-enabled')

Which should open up a selenium browser telling you that Do Not Track is enabled.

Upvotes: 0

pynterest
pynterest

Reputation: 61

For those working with the Python, we were able to follow the Java answer above and do the following:

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
prefs = {"enable_do_not_track": True}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)

Upvotes: 3

BullyWiiPlaza
BullyWiiPlaza

Reputation: 19215

I figured it out. It can be done by setting the preferences from the Chrome preferences file like this:

Map<String, Object> preferences = new HashMap<String, Object>();
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();

preferences.put("enable_do_not_track", true);
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", preferences);

Upvotes: 3

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