Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics

Post by dang » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 4:59 PM UTC

TheLogothete wrote: post #281

stephenr wrote: post #279

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> Except that my opinion is formed based on logic and my expertise and your opinion is based on... what exactly? The exact words from Google own privacy policy, and the fundamentals of how IP networking works? > It should be noted this does not directly contradict what GP claims I disagree with that interpretation. They specifically say that they use data collected: "We also use this information to offer you tailored…

You are so desperate to justify your thinking (not to me, mind you, to yourself) that you grasp for every straw possible, forgetting what the question was about along the way. This particular question was about how you formed your opinion about Google using GA data to build advertising profiles. My opinion is formed based on my expertise in mining many terabytes of data and my experience in sourcing this data. Based…

Post by soared » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 5:19 PM UTC

FilterSweep wrote: post #282

sneak wrote: post #264

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Why are you even collecting this information? Homebrew isn't some for-profit product trying to optimize its funnel. Keep doing what you were doing. You were doing a great job. There is no benefit to you or us to silently spy on us.

From the GitHub doc[0]: > Homebrew is provided free of charge and run entirely by volunteers in their spare time. As a result, we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew. I read this as…

Post by izacus » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

Post by FilterSweep » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 5:59 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #293

FilterSweep wrote: post #282

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From the GitHub doc[0]: > Homebrew is provided free of charge and run entirely by volunteers in their spare time. As a result, we do not have the resources to do detailed user studies of Homebrew users to decide on how best to design future features and prioritise current work. Anonymous aggregate user analytics allow us to prioritise fixes and features based on how, where and when people use Homebrew. I read this as…

How the hell did you get that? They don't have money for market research so an easy/free alternative is GA. You assumed because they use GA that Google paid them off? That is absurd.

Post by cstrahan » Tue, Apr 26, 2016, 7:15 PM UTC

lawnchair_larry wrote: post #202

cstrahan wrote: post #186

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> Remember when everyone switched to Homebrew because Fink/macports were "antiquated", a.k.a. not written in Ruby? Yes, I must admit I chose the word "antiquated" quite intentionally, as Homebrew seems to get so much attention (for now) because it's written in Ruby and the website ( http://brew.sh/ ) is shiny, rather than technical merits. > It was nice back then. Packages didn't install themselves in /usr/local. You…

That's the purpose of /usr/local. /nix/store? Really? You can't just make up new root level directories. That's so wrong.

  /nix/store/2mmvks92lx37xghj0795ldzrg50lh2pg-bash-4.3-p42
  ├── bin
  │   ├── bash
  │   ├── bashbug
  │   └── sh -> bash
  └── share
      ├── info
      │   ├── bash.info
      …   …
      └── man
          └── man1
              ├── bash.1.gz
              └── bashbug.1.gz
  
  /nix/store/8g6gb6r49fxsrp547rdi3zr06vd69khq-git-2.7.4
  ├── bin
  │   ├── git
  │   ├── git-cvsserver
  │   ├── git-http-backend -> /nix/store/8g6gb6r49fxsrp547rdi3zr06vd69khq-git-2.7.4/libexec/git-core/git-http-backend
  │   ├── git-receive-pack -> git
  │   ├── git-shell
  │   ├── git-upload-archive -> git
  …   └── git-upload-pack