Privacy.
MDHero (the desktop app) collects nothing. This website (mdhero.app) uses two cookie-free analytics tools to count page views, plus Microsoft Clarity for session recordings — which uses cookies and is therefore not loaded for visitors in the EU, UK, or EEA.
The desktop app
MDHero collects no personal data, no telemetry, no usage events. Your
markdown files never leave your machine. The app makes one HTTPS
request to mdhero.app/api/version at most once every 24
hours to check for a new release; that request is aggregate-counted
(operating system bucket only — no device IDs, no IPs).
This website (mdhero.app)
Three tools run here, all visible in the page source:
- Vercel Web Analytics — cookie-free, aggregate
page views. Respects the
Do Not Trackbrowser setting. - GoatCounter — cookie-free, aggregate page views. Public dashboard at stealinghero.goatcounter.com.
- Microsoft Clarity — session recordings and
heatmaps. Sets two first-party cookies (
_clckfor ~1 year,_clskfor ~1 day). Not loaded for visitors in the EU, UK, or EEA — the country is determined at request time from Vercel's edge geolocation and Clarity is skipped before the script runs.
What we don't do
- No accounts, no logins, no email collection on this site.
- No ads, no advertising trackers, no data sold to third parties.
- No cross-site tracking pixels.
Opt out
- Microsoft Clarity: opt out globally at
clarity.microsoft.com/optout,
or block the domain
clarity.msin your browser / an ad blocker. - Vercel Analytics & GoatCounter: both respect
Do Not Track. Enable it in your browser and neither will record your visit.
Contact
Questions, requests to delete data, or anything else — open an issue at github.com/vaibhavuk-dev/mdhero.
Last updated: 16 June 2026.