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Or, you could edit /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb to send Google Analytics garbage (from random UUIDs) until Homebrew makes this feature opt-in.

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This is a great idea.

Any rubyists want to provide a patch to do this?

trashing the telemetry data they're using to figure out what OS/ver people are using and bugs they are hitting makes you a real jerk

use their opt-out if you want

Collecting telemetry data without letting users even know about it (much less opt in) isn't cool, either.

I'm really having trouble understanding this (and I appear to be in a very very tiny minority). Why would it bother you if homebrew devs and Google knew which packages you had installed?

Fair point, the public shaming that is happening now is probably punishment enough.

Frankly I don't trust the opt-out code to be (and remain) bug-free. There are, as far as I can tell from searching, no tests. So I feel more comfortable maintaining a patched version with the calls nooped instead.

You can also submit a pull-request to add tests or fix any bug you can find.

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