Brew commands send data to Google Analytics

Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by CJefferson on Friday November 25, 2016 @06:36AM (#13035975)

Then we hit the problem that if we don't push that request at users, probably a tiny fraction will turn it on.

Worse, that fraction will be the statistically unusual people who bother reading and finding such options, meaning we can't derive any statistically useful results about the user base from them!

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by TeMPOraL on Friday November 25, 2016 @11:35AM (#13037852)

Frankly, that's your problem. I don't see even a true desire to make the software better as a legitimate reason to exfiltrate data from people without asking.

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by codedokode on Friday November 25, 2016 @07:01AM (#13036096)

Maybe you should ask them better. For example you could ask for help on the home page of your project or in the beginning of a tutorial. Or maybe they do not want to paticipate. Is it right to ignore this and turn analytics on by default?

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by lewiseason on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:23AM (#13036527)

The Debian installer gets this right: it prompts you during the install whether it can collect information about installed packages for popcon[1]

[1] http://popcon.debian.org/

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by majewsky on Saturday November 26, 2016 @08:01AM (#13043285)

I never understood why popcon is necessary. Couldn't you achieve about the same result by just counting downloads on the package mirrors?

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