[Hackbraten]

We’re looking into other analytics platforms. If you happen to know a good replacement with better privacy and similar features, we’d be happy to review PRs.

Please mind that knowing unique installs will remain important for us though. We have zero interest in tracking people but we do need meaningful install counts. Those numbers have been super helpful for making decisions, for example which packages are worth maintainers’ time and which aren’t.

[sneak]

I don't care at all about how valuable the stolen data you've obtained by violating people's consent is to you.

You're shipping unethical malware. Making the data more private, switching analytics platforms, doing IP scrubbing... it doesn't change the ethical issue at all. You're stealing data without the consent of the subject/generator of that data.

What you're doing is illegal in medicine, for example.