Ask HN: Is there a reference of CLI tools with analytics?

Posted by thiht on Thursday September 08, 2022 @04:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm interested in a list of CLI tools with embedded analytics, and how to disable them. For example, Homebrew analytics can be disabled with:

    export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1

Is there such a list?

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a reference of CLI tools with analytics? by arinlen on Thursday September 08, 2022 @05:43AM (#32763330)

The .NET CLI explicitly emits telemetry.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a reference of CLI tools with analytics? by toastal on Thursday September 08, 2022 @05:27AM (#32763232)

Not the most straightforward way to do it, but Nixpkgs have analytics off by default on most applications. Still waiting on one of my additions for Gatsby's disabled analytics to get reviewed and merged though.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a reference of CLI tools with analytics? by rozenmd on Thursday September 08, 2022 @05:01AM (#32763083)

If there is, I couldn't find it.

It'd be awesome if there was a standard "doNotTrack" style variable for CLIs.

With wrangler we went with WRANGLER_SEND_METRICS, as well as a user prompt to opt in/out.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a reference of CLI tools with analytics? by throwaway576652 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @06:21AM (#32763582)

AWS SAM CLI:

    export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY=0

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