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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?

Yes. Privacy should be the default.

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.

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