I believe the lack of change there is almost certainly a matter of the 
project’s personal stance rather than “nobody having a problem with it”. In 
fact, after the change was merged in there was a fairly long discussion about 
first disclosing that there were analytics collected at all (which did 
eventually get implemented) and then switching off of Google Analytics or 
making it opt-in, which weren’t. Actually, there were multiple discussions but 
they like the original were generally closed as “WONTFIX” and this has been the 
policy to this day.

Personally, I would be fairly disappointed if MacPorts went opt-in as such 
policies suffer from statistical issues in addition to the obvious 
privacy-related ones.

Saagar Jha

> On Jun 12, 2020, at 16:48, Ken Cunningham <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Just FYI Homebrew has always been opt-out for stats. Nobody seems to have a 
> problem with that sufficient to make them change that policy.
> 
> We'll never know if that is why they seem to have 10 x the users on their 
> stats page.
> 
> K

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