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Valentin-Gabriel Radu 2022-01-23 15:49:17 +02:00
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Sure. Configure the following two REG_SZ entries in `HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ExplorerPatcher`:
* `UpdateURL`: configures the main update URL, for releases only. It has to serve the executable file directly, similar to the default of: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases/latest returns
* `UpdateURLStaging`: configures the update URL for pre-releases and releases. It has to return JSON, similar to what the default of: https://api.github.com/repos/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases?per_page=1 returns
* `UpdateURLStaging`: configures the update URL for pre-releases and releases. It has to return JSON, similar to what the default of: https://api.github.com/repos/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/releases?per_page=1 returns
## What personal data is collected during the update process?
As is the case in general with ExplorerPatcher, no data is collected in general. The code does not have any kind of telemetry built-in. When it comes to updates, the only thing that stands out in this matter is the fact that GitHub collects the number of total downloads for the releases of the projects hosted there. This data is public. When the updater connects to GitHub and downloads the few bytes of the most recent file, to check whether an update is available, the download counter at GitHub increases, even though the file hasn't been fully downloaded. Thus, this, plus an assumption of how often a computer is restarted, and how many days have passed since the release, can be used to guesstimate how many users a particular version of ExplorerPatcher has. And that would be it. That's all the public data offers, a (partial) download counter - that data alone can in no way be used to personally identify you. Other than that, GitHub may indeed collect other data when connecting to their servers. That would best have to be checked in their own [privacy policy](https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-privacy-statement).