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This spyware is awesome! Love how they track everything you do with the use of environment variables.

We've already asked you specifically not to do this, so we've banned the account.

Care to explain, or are you just rambling?

They phone home (to Google Analytics) by default: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

It's pretty ridiculous. They're giving Google a map of everything individual users install. The only reason it's "anonymous" is that they're relying on Google to throw away personally identifying data before Homebrew sees it.

oh, so a 'echo export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 >> /etc/profile' is too difficult?

Don't you think it's reasonable to make that sort of thing opt-in? This feels like the kind of presumption of a right to observe users that normally makes HN howl.

Yes. Privacy should be the default.

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