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This is no longer the case, as of Homebrew 1.0. See this change: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/896

< plus the requirement that you own /usr/local no, this is not required anymore... https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/a2f19f0a675f7cb384b4... > You can't have multiple users able to use homebrew what i did is i run Homebrew as a user i called Admin and when logged in as another user i simply do a 'su - admin' to run the brew commands..

Unbelievable.. anyway, you can look up your current settings using # brew analytics state and switch it off # brew analytics off More info - https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

From https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....: > As far as we can tell it would be impossible for Google to match the randomly generated Homebrew-only analytics user ID to any other Google Analytics user ID. 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. Look, by now Google knows my whole stack and what I'm doing with each project, and Homebrew using Google Analytics doesn't bother me much. I still disabled it a while ago and after reading "if Google turned evil" put like a remote possibility I won't turn it back on. There are two extremes in tech — paranoia about everything and magical optimism about everything. This is an example of the latter. A corporation of Google's scale and relevance to different industries s

You can disable it by setting the ENV variable HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/Library/Homebre...

How do you turn it off for brew cask? Anyway this option should have been available in their man page. But anyway they have clearly mentioned it. https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... If they want data, I will happily fill up their survey form but please don't take it for granted that my personal data is yours otherwise I may go to China for their great wall.

> we need to start asking ourselves as a community whether we think treating open-source maintainers like this is more or less likely to encourage more people to work on the open-source software you rely on to do your job. Exactly this. The homebrew team has done an amazing job for the past 7 years, all free and volunteer work. People threatening with suing the maintainer are poison for the open-source community. But hey, haters gonna hate. If I understand correctly, the data is anonymized before it is sent to Google [1]. How may people worrying about privacy download from Github using a proxy/vpn solution to hide their IP? I've listened to the Changelog podcast about Homebrew and first learned about Google Analytics there. I think people do not realize how big homebrew is (in form of usage and traffic). At this scale, the maintainer opte

It's outlined here: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

Sounds quite reasonable to me when you read it: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

Opting out [0] Homebrew analytics helps us maintainers and leaving it on is appreciated. However, if you want to opt out of Homebrew's analytics, you can set this variable in your environment: export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1 Alternatively, this will prevent analytics from ever being sent: brew analytics off [0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

The information brew collects I would hardly call personally identifiable. Take a look at what they collect: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics....

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/docs/Analytics.... (This link is provided in the initial notification)

I agree that it should be opt-in instead of opt-out but worrying what they do else behind the scenes is paranoid. You can check it out: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew

`brew update` and check you've not hit the update bug: https://github.com/homebrew/brew#update-bug We'll tell you what permissions you need to keep/remove. Alternatively, uninstall and reinstall Homebrew and similarly we'll tell you on permissions.