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by wildrhythms 1873 days ago
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

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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.