Not even your IP address is recorded. It&#x27;s physically impossible for this to be malicious. There are no real privacy advocates complaining here, only people who post &quot;it must be opt-in!&quot; as an instant reaction to just reading the term &quot;opt-out&quot;. Most of the complaints are probably from people who have never even used homebrew. The submission headline contains the phrase &quot;Google Analytics&quot;, which attracts the people who always come to criticize the tool rather than actually analyzing how the tool is being used in each case.