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Comment by mikemcquaid | Hacker News Reader

Personally, I find it toxic that you insist on posting this on literally every thread I see about Homebrew.

Ironically, you demonstrate my point from the article. You feel entitled to Homebrew having different analytics behaviour and in demanding the time and effort from myself or other maintainers to make it behave how you want it to.

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I don't see the parent comment as necessarily an entitlement. They are not demanding anything in particular from Homebrew project maintainers. They are informing us -- the readers -- about the analytics behavior in Homebrew so that we can make an informed decision about whether we should continue to use Homebrew or choose an alternative like macports or nix. It read more like a public service announcement to me.

Homebrew informs you about our analytics behaviour before we send any data with a link to the documentation (https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics) which in turn links to the code on new installations and on existing ones if you haven't updated since we enabled analytics.

My generally-strong agreement with your position stops at the point where you object to the public dissemination of apparently factual information.

You violated our trust and still are seemingly refusing to admit that. You dismissed any criticism of your choices that didn't come from a maintainer, calling such criticism abusive and stemming from entitlement. It's relevant context whenever you complain about entitled users.

Personally, I find it useful when people let me know about spyware features of software - whether in open source or not.

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