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I've found that a lot of people here in HN and Reddit are really passionate about not being tracked, so even if it was as easy as one command, the fact that Hom
by sotojuan 10y ago
I've found that a lot of people here in HN and Reddit are really passionate about not being tracked, so even if it was as easy as one command, the fact that Homebrew did it at all is enough to make some people not want to use it.
Nothing wrong with that viewpoint, but I just disabled it and moved on to enjoying pretty good software.
- mikeash 10y agoIt has nothing to do with how easy or hard it is to disable. The problem is that it doesn't ask first, or even tell you what it's doing. OK, now that I know about it, I can turn it off, but how do I know they won't do something similarly ugly in a future version?
- mikemcquaid 10y agoWe do tell you about it before we start recording any analytics.
- bangonkeyboard 10y agoYou do now, after people noticed what you were doing. You didn't then, when the GA integration was originally snuck in.