I use telemetry to understand how BrickTracker gets used across installations: how many exist, which versions people run, and which pages get visited. That's what tells me where to spend development time.

What is send
What is never send

Data goes to a self-hosted Matomo instance, not Google Analytics or any other third party.

Telemetry is off by default and fully optional. You can turn it off any time in Admin → Static Settings (a restart is needed for that change to take effect). The code deciding what gets sent lives in bricktracker/telemetry.py, open source and auditable.