Re:Homebrew 1.0.0
by petre on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @02:33PM
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Why would anoyone deliberately bother writing google analytics code in homebrew is beyond me. It should be optin or someone who is sufficiently pissed off could fork it and remove the offending code.
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The devs' justification was that if it was opt-in, most people wouldn't do it. They thought it better to turn it on and force users to go manually disable it.
I disagreed in the GitHub issue about this. Debian's Popcorn (package popularity analytics) is opt-in - a choice on install that defaults to "off". That would be the perfect solution. Ultimately those who agreed with me were told that the decision was made and there would be no further discussion - the issue was closed and locked.