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Re:HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over las... by zanchey on Sunday September 03, 2017 @09:58PM (#15165146)
Debian publishes statistics gathered by the optional "popularity-contest" package at http://popcon.debian.org

I can't remember whether the default is opt-out or in with the current installer.

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Re:HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over las... by stephenr on Sunday September 03, 2017 @11:44PM (#15165570)
It prompts if you want to install it.

It also doesn't sent data to a privacy abusing company like google.

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Re:HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over las... by zakk on Monday September 04, 2017 @03:54PM (#15170485)
> It also doesn't sent data to a privacy abusing company like google.

Actually the data is sent to Google.

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