Privacy
Ticker is built to monetize the wait without ever touching your work. Here is exactly what it does and does not do.
What leaves your machine
To pick a relevant ad, the Ticker CLI sends only coarse, non-identifying signals to the exchange: a detected primary language label (e.g. "typescript"), the model id in use, and your publisher key. A coarse country is derived server-side from your IP. That is all.
What never leaves your machine
- — Your code, file contents, or file paths.
- — Your prompts or Claude's responses.
- — Your repository names, secrets, or environment.
Language detection runs locally and looks only at marker files (like package.json or go.mod), never at their contents.
Impression integrity
Ads are counted only after a dwell threshold, using server-signed tokens so neither side can inflate counts. Clicks are de-duplicated.
Removing Ticker
Run ticker uninstall. It removes the status line entry and restores any prior one. One command, fully reversible.