Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics
by fit2rule on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:18AM
(#13035629)
Treating your users as idiots is one thing. Users treating you as an idiot is another thing. Neither one of these conditions is acceptable.
As a long-term homebrew user, I am very appreciative of your hard work (and have even contributed here and there), but in that light I am also very disappointed that I have to manually disable analytics and now have a lot less trust in the homebrew project.
In the same way that I would complain if I were to see a bug in your code that radically effects my production, I consider this invasion of privacy - whatever the justification - worthy of complaint, too. Whatever the justification for this, its not an acceptable path to take, and I strongly urge you to consider making Analytics opt-in, and not opt-out. I have no problem with my next 'brew update' pausing, explaining the situation rationally as you have in this post, and giving me a y/n opportunity to proceed with participating in analytics. I do have a serious problem with you assuming that this is okay, not informing me of it in a fashion that makes me aware of the tracking, and just letting it slip in during an update, which I am now even more suspicious of, even though I do them religiously every week, and have done so for years.
You've just made your product less attractive to me as a developer and user. That's a sad state of affairs, and I hope you fix this bug.
As a long-term homebrew user, I am very appreciative of your hard work (and have even contributed here and there), but in that light I am also very disappointed that I have to manually disable analytics and now have a lot less trust in the homebrew project.
In the same way that I would complain if I were to see a bug in your code that radically effects my production, I consider this invasion of privacy - whatever the justification - worthy of complaint, too. Whatever the justification for this, its not an acceptable path to take, and I strongly urge you to consider making Analytics opt-in, and not opt-out. I have no problem with my next 'brew update' pausing, explaining the situation rationally as you have in this post, and giving me a y/n opportunity to proceed with participating in analytics. I do have a serious problem with you assuming that this is okay, not informing me of it in a fashion that makes me aware of the tracking, and just letting it slip in during an update, which I am now even more suspicious of, even though I do them religiously every week, and have done so for years.
You've just made your product less attractive to me as a developer and user. That's a sad state of affairs, and I hope you fix this bug.