[yunohn]

I’m not sure where you get your facts?

> You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew. Analytics are not enabled until after this notice is shown, to ensure that you can opt out without ever sending analytics data.

- https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

[sneak]

Yes, it says this once at install time, and does not obtain any form of consent to spying.

Then, at runtime, it proceeds to silently transmit the data each time you run brew.

[wildrhythms]

I'm confused- the brew developers say you can run `brew analytics off` to "prevent analytics from ever being sent" [1]. Is this not accurate? Are analytics still being sent? Is your concern with the consent, or are the brew developers lying when they say this command prevents analytics from being sent?

1: https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

[yladiz]

I think what he means is that there isn't explicit consent given for the analytics, as in opt-in rather than opt-out. You can disable it but that's not the same.

[wl]

When they implemented it, they opted everyone in and buried the notice in a wall of text. I only caught it when Little Snitch notified me that brew was reaching out to Google.

The project still doesn't seem to understand how bad of a mistake this was and how bad their response to it was. But as the project lead told us while playing the victim, if we're not contributors, our opinions on the matter mean nothing.