[tedivm]

>You can see exactly how Homebrew does analytics here[1], and you can see the sum total of the information collected here[2]. No identifiable information is collected or retained.

If my computer is sending data to Google then Google has my IP address and can correlate that data however they want. You simply can not claim that identifiable information isn't collected or retained unless you work for Google.

I don't know if you work with Homebrew or not, but I would be much more comfortable if they used something like Plausible for analytics.

[Operyl]

They're planning to completely drop and delete all Google data in 90 days, once they are sure the new plan works out.

FTA:

> We expect to migrate entirely from Google Analytics to our self-hosted InfluxDB instance in ~90 days at which point we will remove all Google Analytics and destroy all existing data.

[lucideer]

> I would be much more comfortable if they used something like Plausible for analytics

Their intent is to migrate entirely away from Google to the San Francisco based InfluxData, which I guess is marginally better in some ways but seems to entirely miss the point of people's objections in spirit. Other than people's personal subjective trust of one US company over another, there's no inherent difference between Alphabet & InfluxData from a technical standpoint.

InfluxData do collect IPs per https://www.influxdata.com/legal/privacy-policy/

[Hackbraten]

> our new, self-hosted InfluxDB instance

Given that it’s a self-hosted instance, InfluxData shouldn’t be able to exfiltrate anything from it.

[lucideer]

Maybe the self-hosted is planned but I was just going on this line which uses the managed service: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...