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I updated to 4.0 and didn't get an alert about the new analytics - if I hadn't read about it here, I wouldn't even know there were different environment variabl

by aa-jv 4y ago

I updated to 4.0 and didn't get an alert about the new analytics - if I hadn't read about it here, I wouldn't even know there were different environment variables to stop analytics tracking now. I'd wager there are thousands of users who would prefer this not be tracking them, but yet do not know it is. That's a dark pattern.

eesmith 4y ago
> I wouldn't even know there were different environment variables to stop analytics tracking now. Where does it say there are different environment variables to stop analytics tracking now? The linked-to post says there's a new setting if you are okay with the new analytics and don't want to use the Google analytics: > If you had previously set HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS because you didn’t like Google Analytics and/or data being sent to the USA: please consider unsetting this and setting HOMEBREW_NO_GOOGLE_ANALYTICS instead, allowing analytics data to be sent to our new InfluxDB host. but that reads like the old settings still work with brew 4.0.