[Bug]: Errors in js console after disabling posthog

[enyst]

Is there an existing issue for the same bug?

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Describe the bug and reproduction steps

Running locally, I got the pop-up to ask about posthog, and disabled it. Then as the app is starting up, the js console is a bit unhappy:

The browser is Brave. Shouldn't it not try to connect? Cc: @amanape

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[amanape]

Yes I've noticed this too and confirmed a few times that no events are being logged. I'll look into why exactly its logging soon though

[amanape]

So it turns out that this is due to the ad-blocker. You can confirm that they stop after disabling the ad-blocker.

It has something to do when we init PostHog (before opting in or out):

OpenHands/frontend/src/entry.client.tsx

Lines 25 to 28 in 1725627

	posthog.init(config.POSTHOG_CLIENT_KEY, {
	api_host: "https://us.i.posthog.com",
	person_profiles: "identified_only",
	});

I assume it tries to make initial contact with the api_host (https://us.i.posthog.com) but fails to do so because of the ad-blocker, so it attempts to retry. They don't seem to have configurations to handle this error though so not much I can do ☹️

Feel free to re-open this issue if you still encounter it after disabling ad-block