Homebrew 4.0.0
I wish we could get the industry to understand that when you build-in analytics and make it hard for people to opt out, you&#x27;re using their resources.<p>Sure, people don&#x27;t pay for things like Homebrew (can they even?) - but this is no reason to extract resources from end users without their consent or agency.<p>I have to work very hard to get something like Homebrew installed and in-use in my organization - the IT guys detest it, since they don&#x27;t have the wherewithal to understand it (or else they&#x27;d be higher-paid developers) so when I finally do get it installed and in use (because it is a very productive tool), having it phone home just makes the situation worse.  IT guys have asked for my blood on more than one occasion, just because they see something &#x27;uncontrollable&#x27; phoning home .. this does a lot more harm than good.<p>That said, homebrew has been absolutely responsible for making MacOS usable for development purposes in this ol&#x27; hackers lab, so I&#x27;ll keep using it - but I sure do wish they&#x27;d care a little more about the position they put us in, having to justify the use of it to IT guys ..<p>EDIT: Thinking about it, I&#x27;m actually not averse to phoning-home, just the automatic&#x2F;hidden nature of it.  If brew asked me, every 5 or so times that I ran it, if I would like to participate in sending anonymized analytics to the brew devs, and <i>showed</i> me what was being sent (instead of obfuscating it), I&#x27;d be a lot more inclined to click &quot;[Yes] - this one time&quot; almost every single time ..