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Re:HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over las... by falcolas on Monday September 04, 2017 @10:59AM (#15168649)
In short, I can verify what's being done on my computer. I can inspect the formulas and verify that what is claimed to be executed is what is actually being executed.

I can't on yours (or Google's).

EDIT: I'm sorry, was there something factually wrong with this statement to warrant downvoting it into oblivion?

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Re:HomeBrew Analytics – top 1000 packages installed over las... by mikemcquaid on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:38AM (#15173684)
You can trivially verify all the information that's sent by us to Google; we have an environment variable to do exactly that.
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