> If Google turned evil the only thing they could do would be to lie about anonymising IP addresses and attempt to match users based on IP addresses.<p>My worry is that Google is already evil and could be very well lying and silently using the (deanonymized) data. I have no problems with Homebrew getting that data through their own platform but seriously, fuck Google.
This looks like they put a lot of good thought into it.<p>They've got a clear outline of what is and is not shared, why they are collecting it, links to the source code that handles it, explicit notice along with an easy opt-out mechanism, etc.
This is easily turned off via your shell config file or through homebrew itself thankfully.<p><pre><code> export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
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<i>or</i><p><pre><code> brew analytics off</code></pre>