Hi y'all, I was a core Homebrew maintainer at the time they added analytics. Just want to say that Saagar is right; there were a *lot* of Homebrew users who did in fact have a problem with it.
Cheers, Andrwe On 6/12/20 9:03 PM, Saagar Jha wrote: > 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
