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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by _b8r0 on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:02AM (#13035553)
Why do they need to use Google Analytics and hand information over to a third party instead of using something hosted?

I get that there may be money involved, but presumably self-hosting also gives them more of the information to build out what they need.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by emartinelli on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:14AM (#13035609)
In another comment in this thread by @mikemcquaid (Homebrew lead maintainer):

> (...)and have been trying to find people who will provide us with non-Google hosting but: we're chronically understaffed and underfunded[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13035438

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by karmacoda on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:47AM (#13035776)
What are the estimated costs for (something like) this?
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by pvinis on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:09AM (#13035587)
I agree completely with you and majewsky below.
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