> no personal info
> Just your universally unique id
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> Just your universally unique id
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How is a Homebrew UUID personal info?
Maybe this is sufficiently private, maybe not. I'm not a security expert.
Maybe GA's fingerprinting heuristics are advanced enough to know that because user 1034324234 installed spacemacs at 4:01 and I visited the spacemacs documentation at 4:01 that there's a decent chance I'm user 1034324234.
Decent enough to see if the pattern happens again. After a few rounds of this, it's close enough to serve me ads based on user 1034324234's install patterns.
:shrug: doesn't sound crazy to me.
This. The reasons they articulate for suddenly deciding on performing this data collection, and for doing it via GA are laughable. I am sufficiently annoyed at this because of the generation of yet another outbound data stream from my system, but the fact that in all likelihood the project will do nothing with this data really annoys me. There is zero need for this in a package system.