Wish 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?
Shove it in your .bashrc, or equivalent for your shell of choice.
Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
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#12Wish 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?
pls go ahead and read the first response:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/117467/how-to-perman...
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#13Wish 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?
That's what ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or (whatever it is for your shell) is for.
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#14Set 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.)
Totally agree. I don't feel too comfortable bout google knowing everything about me... Should be opt in.
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#15Google must have eventually hired him.
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#16Wish 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?
Couldn't you just put it in your .bashrc?
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#17Wish 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?
Put it in ~/.profile ?
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#18is it formulae or formula?
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#19Yet another reason to ditch the antiquated Homebrew, and switch to the cross platform Nix:
Re: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
#20Set 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.
Would be somehow more ethical if they set up their own piwik instance to collect the same data?