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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by woodruffw on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:31AM (#34819947)
Homebrew is not a custodian of any personally identifiable data.
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by pdntspa on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:43AM (#34820111)
Does that include IP addresses? Because I think that is considered PII
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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by woodruffw on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:46AM (#34820163)
Homebrew does not store IP addresses, so yes.

You can see the totality of the information stored on the Homebrew website[1].

[1]: https://formulae.brew.sh/analytics/

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Re:Homebrew 4.0.0 by eddieroger on Thursday February 16, 2023 @10:46AM (#34820166)
From the post:

> Our self-hosted InfluxDB instance does not store either anonymised IP addresses or an anonymised user token so it has additional privacy benefits over Google Analytics.

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