[🚀 Feature]: Simplify Selenium Manager architecture telemetry

[titusfortner]

Description

We are currently collecting too many unnecessary values for architecture.
These are the only values we care about:

windows:
amd64
arm64
x64
x86

Linux:
x86_64
aarch64
armv7l

Mac:
x86_64
arm64

Everything that isn't one of these things should be recorded and sent as "other"
further we should normalize these values, we only need to know if it is one of these 4:

• x86
• x86_64
• arm64
• arm7l

So we should convert/normalize x64, amd64 and aarch64

Have you considered any alternatives or workarounds?

We don't have to normalize, but there's not a good reason to avoid it if we're adjusting things.

[cgoldberg]

windows:
amd64
x64

Those are the same AFAIK

windows:
arm64

Linux:
aarch64
armv7l

How is it sending telemetry for those? I thought it doesn't support ARM on Windows/Linux?

[titusfortner]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, we should normalize what we're currently getting, so that the same things are actually labeled the same.

I think some of what we are capturing is users overriding environment variables, which if they do there is no value at all to our collecting the info
There is a way to run linux binaries on alternate architectures. We collect the data before the results. So, Selenium Manager does not currently provide a driver binary for raspberry pi, but theoretically you could execute the SM binary on the arm7l have it send data to Plausible, and then just get a weird failure back. I think that's what we're recording.

I think it is useful to be able to see if people are trying to use Selenium that way, maybe if there is enough real-world interest, there is something we can do to better support it? Not sure.

Either way we need to only collect data that is valuable to us in informing what we may want to do.

[titusfortner]

To clarify further, what we actually want to know with this data is which drivers our users want (so we can break it down between what we support and what we don't). We can feed info back to Browser vendors if significant requests are coming for unsupported drivers.