Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
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Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#2Kudos for at least announcing this. (And I've totally opted out.)
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#3Set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 to opt out.
The right thing to do would be to make it opt in, not opt out. (Which would not be without precedent. Debian's popcon is opt-in.)
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#4Set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 to opt out. The right thing to do would be to make it opt in, not opt out. (Which would not be without precedent. Debian's popcon is opt-in.)
That's probably true, but then no one would opt-in.
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#5The fact that they are transparent about this, that we can opt-out if we want and that they're open source makes me feel more than comfortable sharing anonymous usage information with them. Homebrew has been amazing for me!
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#6Set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 to opt out. The right thing to do would be to make it opt in, not opt out. (Which would not be without precedent. Debian's popcon is opt-in.)
Disagree. Google Analytics is a network of companies that has agreed to privately collection information about users without their permission or even knowledge. It is malware that should not be included in Homebrew. The only ethical decision we can make as developers is not to use it.
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#7Totally fine with it.
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#8Wish there was a way of opt'ing-out without having to set an env var for every session .. is there some brew place to put ENV vars?
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#9Set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 to opt out. The right thing to do would be to make it opt in, not opt out. (Which would not be without precedent. Debian's popcon is opt-in.)
Disagree. Google Analytics is a network of companies that has agreed to privately collection information about users without their permission or even knowledge. It is malware that should not be included in Homebrew. The only ethical decision we can make as developers is not to use it.
Yeah, I'll confess that this is a real deal breaker for me personally .. I'll be having a closer look at ports and maybe fink soon. Maybe after all its time to get off OSX and back to Linux, where these sorts of things happen less frequently ..
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#10The fact that they are transparent about this, that we can opt-out if we want and that they're open source makes me feel more than comfortable sharing anonymous usage information with them. Homebrew has been amazing for me!
Is an alert displayed to the user the first time it tries to send info to Google? If not, that is far from "transparent". It's good that they tell you how to opt out on the website, but I can't remember the last time I went to the website. Probably when I first installed Homebrew on this Mac.