Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Analytics
I normally enjoyed the insight and comments of the thread more than the content of the article and don&#x27;t comment that much.<p>But my personal opinion on this, only to share it and be heard possibly by the developers of homebrew, is that I honestly do not care about this. It&#x27;s nice they are open about it, it&#x27;s a hell of a tool and hey, if they want to track what I do to improve it, have my data.<p>I really don&#x27;t see the opt-in&#x2F;opt-out debate being so harsh on this. Because it&#x27;s open source it should be opt-in? I really don&#x27;t think so. Analytics are a valuable source of information for the developer and google provides a hell of a service for that. And you probably use several closed source tools that track you, sometimes without even telling you. Yes, you can really of external tools to block this, great for all of us those tools exists, you can use it for homebrew as well.<p>I wonder if all of the opt-in advocates don&#x27;t use gmail for their email. I am pretty sure they do, and they are not worried about all of the tracking going on there? Or on other apps? Unless you really follow most if not all of stallman&#x27;s computing principles[1], being furious about this, is, IMHO, disproportionate and a bit ungrateful.<p>So I am more than OK with opt-out. Nice that you wrote about it, nice that you provide a way to do it, and nice that you use your time to create such a great tool!<p>Kudos!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;stallman-computing.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stallman.org&#x2F;stallman-computing.html</a>