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Really? Please tell me more.

• sneak 6y ago
  Homebrew silently reports your IP address (and thus coarse location), a unique identifier (that allows your location to be tracked over time), as well as any packages you install, to Google (and by extension the US military intelligence community), each time you use it. I switched to Nix.
  • novok 6y ago
    HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 / brew analytics off doesn't prevent that?
    • snazz 6y ago
      Analytics connections are also trivial to block on a DNS level. Homebrew isn’t malware; it’s not going to circumvent a simple DNS block for analytics.
    • SSLy 6y ago
      that should be the default and google analytics should be opt-in at best
    • sneak 6y ago
      It does, but software that is spyware unless you twiddle the hidden knob to make it not spy is still spyware.