traccar: Traccar phoning home by default is not documented

It appears that Traccar phones home by default with the setting in default.xml.

<entry key='server.statistics'>https://www.traccar.org/analytics/</entry>

This is not documented for the configuration file; there is just a short mention in a forum post.

It appears the full server statistics is uploaded to the specified URL every day.

I feel that this should definitely not be enabled by default.

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  • Created 6 years ago
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Added documentation for it at the top of the page:

https://www.traccar.org/configuration-file/

If we make it opt-in instead of opt-out, surely nobody would ever configure it.