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Does Homebrew's UUID linked with the user's Google Analytics ID in their browser cookies?

by cpeterso 11y ago

x0x0 11y ago
It certainly appears not. They're using curl and reporting a UID they generate. A Homebrew analytics user ID e.g. 1BAB65CC-FE7F-4D8C-AB45-B7DB5A6BA9CB. This is generated by uuidgen and stored in ~/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid. This does not allow us to track individual users but does enable us to accurately measure user counts vs. event counts https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/Analytics.md https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homeb... Of course, you have to trust homebrew, but hell, you're already running their software, so it's a little late.
- hk__2 11y ago
  You can always even check the code that’s running on your own computer. If you installed Homebrew in /usr/local the relevant files are /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.sh and /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb.