Brew commands send data to Google Analytics

Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by kuschku on Friday November 25, 2016 @08:44AM (#13036673)

I’ve also worked on products with tens of thousands of users, and while tracking is definitely convenient (I recently added a feature where, on first start, the user is informed that crash reports would be sent, and required them to choose "dismiss" or "opt out" before letting them use the app), but it’s no reason to hide it like this.

Nor is it a reason to even try tracking with Google Analytics.

In my case, I ensure that the backend server is also FLOSS, that no problematic data is transferred, and so on. All FLOSS, everything verifiable by the users.

But running Google Analytics? Without prompting the user?

Great...

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Re:Brew commands send data to Google Analytics by codedokode on Friday November 25, 2016 @01:17PM (#13038737)

I don't think the problem is using Google or not. The problem is that software collects and sends data to a network without user's authorization. It is a package manager, not a program for reporting what software you are installing and how exactly you do that and what operating system you are using and user might not expect such behaviour.

Free software is supposed to do what the user wants, not what its developer wants.

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