Adds support for opting out of telemetry via the DO_NOT_TRACK envirnment variable (#7846)

* Added support for opting out of telemtry via the DO_NOT_TRACK environment variable

* Added support for DO_NOT_TRACK=1 in anonymous-statistics.sh and minor cleanup in Dockerfile and run.sh entrypoint

* Allow DO_NOT_TRACK to be either non-zero or non-empty

* Update md5sum of kickstart-static64.sh in docs

* Fixed a bug in netdata-installer.sh

* Revert changes to daemon/main.c (testing onyl)

* Update docs/anonymous-statistics.md

Co-Authored-By: Mansour Behabadi <57921115+ncmans@users.noreply.github.com>

Co-authored-by: Mansour Behabadi <57921115+ncmans@users.noreply.github.com>

daemon/anonymous-statistics.sh.in

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ ACTION_DATA=$(echo "${ACTION_DATA}" | tr '"' "'")
 # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # check opt-out
 
-if [ -f "@configdir_POST@/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics" ]; then
+if [ -f "@configdir_POST@/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics" ] || [ ! "$DO_NOT_TRACK" -eq 0 ] || [ -n "$DO_NOT_TRACK" ]; then
   exit 0
 fi
 

docs/anonymous-statistics.md

@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ installation, including manual, offline, and macOS installations. Create the fil
 
 **Pass the option `--disable-telemetry` to any of the installer scripts in the [installation
 docs](../packaging/installer/README.md).** You can append this option during the initial installation or a manual
-update.
+update. You can also export the environment variable `DO_NOT_TRACK` with a non-zero or non-empty value
+(e.g: `export DO_NOT_TRACK=1`).
 
 When using Docker, **set your `DO_NOT_TRACK` environment variable to `1`.** You can set this variable with the following
 command: `export DO_NOT_TRACK=1`. When creating a container using Netdata's [Docker

netdata-installer.sh

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ USAGE: ${PROGRAM} [options]
   --zlib-is-really-here or
   --libs-are-really-here     If you get errors about missing zlib or libuuid but you know it is available, you might
                              have a broken pkg-config. Use this option to proceed without checking pkg-config.
-  --disable-telemetry        Use this flag to opt-out from our anonymous telemetry progam.
+  --disable-telemetry        Use this flag to opt-out from our anonymous telemetry progam. (DO_NOT_TRACK=1)
 
 Netdata will by default be compiled with gcc optimization -O2
 If you need to pass different CFLAGS, use something like this:
@@ -304,7 +304,9 @@ if [ -z "$NETDATA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY" ]; then
 
   ${TPUT_YELLOW}${TPUT_BOLD}NOTE${TPUT_RESET}:
   Anonymous usage stats will be collected and sent to Google Analytics.
-  To opt-out, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer.
+  To opt-out, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer or export
+  the enviornment variable DO_NOT_TRACK to a non-zero or non-empty value
+  (e.g: export DO_NOT_TRACK=1).
 
 BANNER4
 fi
@@ -885,6 +887,10 @@ install_go
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 progress "Telemetry configuration"
 
+if [ ! "$DO_NOT_TRACK" -eq 0 ] || [ -n "$DO_NOT_TRACK" ]; then
+  NETDATA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1
+fi
+
 # Opt-out from telemetry program
 if [ -n "${NETDATA_DISABLE_TELEMETRY+x}" ]; then
   run touch "${NETDATA_USER_CONFIG_DIR}/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics"

packaging/docker/Dockerfile

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ ARG NETDATA_GID=201
 ENV DOCKER_GRP netdata
 ENV DOCKER_USR netdata
 # If DO_NOT_TRACK is set, it will disable anonymous stats collection and reporting
-#ENV DO_NOT_TRACK
+#ENV DO_NOT_TRACK=1
 RUN \
     # fping from alpine apk is on a different location. Moving it.
     mv /usr/sbin/fping /usr/local/bin/fping && \

packaging/docker/run.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # Author  : Pavlos Emm. Katsoulakis <paul@netdata.cloud>
 set -e
 
-if [ -n "${DO_NOT_TRACK+x}" ]; then
+if [ ! "$DO_NOT_TRACK" -eq 0 ] || [ -n "$DO_NOT_TRACK" ]; then
   touch /etc/netdata/.opt-out-from-anonymous-statistics
 fi
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ if [ -n "${PGID}" ]; then
   echo "Creating docker group ${PGID}"
   addgroup -g "${PGID}" "docker" || echo >&2 "Could not add group docker with ID ${PGID}, its already there probably"
   echo "Assign netdata user to docker group ${PGID}"
-    usermod -a -G ${PGID} ${DOCKER_USR} || echo >&2 "Could not add netdata user to group docker with ID ${PGID}"
+  usermod -a -G "${PGID}" "${DOCKER_USR}" || echo >&2 "Could not add netdata user to group docker with ID ${PGID}"
 fi
 
 exec /usr/sbin/netdata -u "${DOCKER_USR}" -D -s /host -p "${NETDATA_PORT}" -W set web "web files group" root -W set web "web files owner" root "$@"

packaging/installer/kickstart-static64.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #  --non-interactive        do not wait for input
 #  --dont-start-it          do not start netdata after install
 #  --stable-channel         Use the stable release channel, rather than the nightly to fetch sources
-#  --disable-telemetry      Opt-out of anonymous telemetry program
+#  --disable-telemetry      Opt-out of anonymous telemetry program (DO_NOT_TRACK=1)
 #  --local-files            Use a manually provided tarball for the installation
 #
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -231,6 +231,10 @@ while [ -n "${1}" ]; do
   fi
 done
 
+if [ ! "$DO_NOT_TRACK" -eq 0 ] || [ -n "$DO_NOT_TRACK" ]; then
+  NETDATA_INSTALLER_OPTIONS="${NETDATA_INSTALLER_OPTIONS:+${NETDATA_INSTALLER_OPTIONS} }--disable-telemtry"
+fi
+
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 TMPDIR=$(create_tmp_directory)
 cd "${TMPDIR}" || exit 1

packaging/installer/methods/kickstart-64.md

@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ To use `md5sum` to verify the intregity of the `kickstart-static64.sh` script yo
 command above, run the following:
 
 ```bash
-[ "dfa84c3b5e6fd8975555d68f46eccdde" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"
+[ "788cfe179615158331877a577c140486" = "$(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart-static64.sh | md5sum | cut -d ' ' -f 1)" ] && echo "OK, VALID" || echo "FAILED, INVALID"
 ```
 
 If the script is valid, this command will return `OK, VALID`.

packaging/makeself/install-or-update.sh

@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ while [ "${1}" ]; do
   shift 1
 done
 
+if [ ! "$DO_NOT_TRACK" -eq 0 ] || [ -n "$DO_NOT_TRACK" ]; then
+  REINSTALL_OPTIONS="${REINSTALL_OPTIONS} --disable-telemtry"
+fi
+
 deleted_stock_configs=0
 if [ ! -f "etc/netdata/.installer-cleanup-of-stock-configs-done" ]; then
 

packaging/makeself/makeself-help-header.txt

@@ -44,4 +44,6 @@
   https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/LICENSE.md
 
   Anonymous stat collection and reporting to Google Analytics is enabled
-  by default. To disable, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer.
+  by default. To disable, pass --disable-telemetry option to the installer
+  or export the environment variable DO_NOT_TRACK to a non-zero or non-empty
+  value (e.g export DO_NOT_TRACK=1).

web/server/web_client.h

@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@
 #include "libnetdata/libnetdata.h"
 
 #ifdef NETDATA_WITH_ZLIB
-extern int web_enable_gzip,
-        web_gzip_level,
-        web_gzip_strategy;
+extern int web_enable_gzip, web_gzip_level, web_gzip_strategy;
 #endif /* NETDATA_WITH_ZLIB */
 
 // HTTP_CODES 2XX Success
@@ -135,7 +133,6 @@ struct response {
     size_t zhave;                                        // the compressed bytes that we have received from zlib
     unsigned int zinitialized : 1;
 #endif /* NETDATA_WITH_ZLIB */
-
 };
 
 struct web_client {
@@ -194,7 +191,6 @@ struct web_client {
 #endif
 };
 
-
 extern uid_t web_files_uid(void);
 extern uid_t web_files_gid(void);