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Disabling analytics

TL;DR: jbrowse-web and jbrowse-desktop report anonymous counts and type names on load, never file URLs or data, and disableAnalytics: true in the global configuration block turns both endpoints off.

jbrowse-web and jbrowse-desktop collect anonymous usage data, sent to Google Analytics and a JBrowse analytics endpoint.

The report is sent on load and carries the JBrowse version, counts of tracks, assemblies and open views, track type names, plugin names, screen size, and which renderer was selected. No file URLs, track names or data are included — your data files are read by the browser directly and never pass through a JBrowse server.

Setting disableAnalytics: true turns off both endpoints:

{
  "configuration": {
    "disableAnalytics": true
  }
}

Embedded components do not collect any analytics.

disableAnalytics is one of the global configuration slots. See the intro to the config.json format for where it sits, and the JBrowseConfiguration config docs for the other global slots.

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