&gt;This marks quite a change in attitude where the end user is suddenly responsible for staying on top of newly silently introduced opt-out settings. I&#x27;m pretty disappointed and feel the amount of trust I&#x27;ve had in the maintainers have dropped considerably.<p>I agree with you.  I&#x27;d much rather have this be out in the open - like, ever 5th time I run &#x27;brew&#x27; or something, it asks me for permission to send analytics, and the options are &quot;YES-once, YES-Always, NO-NEVER&quot;, and if I say NO, NEVER, it never asks me again.<p>If spying on me can be automated, so can not spying on me.