Or, you could edit /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb to send Google...

Touche · on April 25, 2016

This is a great idea.

Any rubyists want to provide a patch to do this?

x0x0 · on April 25, 2016

trashing the telemetry data they're using to figure out what OS/ver people are using and bugs they are hitting makes you a real jerk

use their opt-out if you want

isomorphic · on April 25, 2016

Collecting telemetry data without letting users even know about it (much less opt in) isn't cool, either.

cellularmitosis · on April 26, 2016

I'm really having trouble understanding this (and I appear to be in a very very tiny minority). Why would it bother you if homebrew devs and Google knew which packages you had installed?

Touche · on April 25, 2016

Fair point, the public shaming that is happening now is probably punishment enough.

Frankly I don't trust the opt-out code to be (and remain) bug-free. There are, as far as I can tell from searching, no tests. So I feel more comfortable maintaining a patched version with the calls nooped instead.

hk__2 · on April 25, 2016

You can also submit a pull-request to add tests or fix any bug you can find.