[Gratsby]

These kinds of "features" are a problem for open source, and I don't know that they are a good idea in general.

It's nice to know how and where your software is being used, but in many environments call-home functionality and auto-update functionality are non-starters.

Any non-user initiated network activity should be explicitly agreed to and available to be easily stripped.

We can and should do a better job with open source software than closed source would-be competition. Even if you aren't a privacy advocate, privacy is a priority of a significant amount of the technical community. It's significant enough that it should be addressed as a forethought to features like this, not an afterthought.

Things like this pop up as negative news entries that people gloss over. The guy who makes the snap decision "don't use brew, it phones home" today could be a CTO who never had that opinion changed three years from now.