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Or, you could edit /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb to send Google Analytics garbage (from random UUIDs) until Homebrew makes this feature opt-in.

• Touche 10y ago
  This is a great idea. Any rubyists want to provide a patch to do this?
  • x0x0 10y ago
    trashing the telemetry data they're using to figure out what OS/ver people are using and bugs they are hitting makes you a real jerk use their opt-out if you want
    • Touche 10y ago
      Fair point, the public shaming that is happening now is probably punishment enough. Frankly I don't trust the opt-out code to be (and remain) bug-free. There are, as far as I can tell from searching, no tests. So I feel more comfortable maintaining a patched version with the calls nooped instead.
      • hk__2 10y ago
        You can also submit a pull-request to add tests or fix any bug you can find.
    • isomorphic 10y ago
      Collecting telemetry data without letting users even know about it (much less opt in) isn't cool, either.
      • deleted 10y ago
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      • cellularmitosis 10y ago
        I'm really having trouble understanding this (and I appear to be in a very very tiny minority). Why would it bother you if homebrew devs and Google knew which packages you had installed?