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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by codedokode on Friday November 25, 2016 @05:27AM (#13035674)
Opt-out is what commecrial companies do because they do not respect their users' privacy. Free open source software should do the opposite.

By the way I think that browser history should be disabled by default too.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by TeMPOraL on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:40AM (#13037892)
Browser history is useful to user (but maybe the access to it could be restricted by means of authentication). I'm fine with off-line browser history that's accessible only to the user (and not JS running on a website). But sending any of it over the wire should definitely be opt-in.
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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by codedokode on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:24PM (#13038268)
An unexperienced user might not know that the history is recorded and later can be accidently seen for example by other member of the family. A good software would not allow that.

I remember some IM app for linux had history turned off by default. I was really surprised then.

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