Yes, but those are websites.  Some degree of tracking is vital to the functioning of many websites. e.g. No cookies, no sessions (generally speaking).  Furthermore, it is expected that a lot of websites are tracking you.<p>I feel pretty safe in saying that most developers do <i>not</i> expect a command-line tool to phone home without saying, especially if this behavior was introduced in an update for a tool which didn&#x27;t do that historically (and without any notification of the change).<p>Considering the popularity of this tool, it&#x27;s a bit shocking that the core dev team of Homebrew didn&#x27;t seem to anticipate that people would be upset by this.  It really knocks my trust in and willingness to depend on this project.