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Collecting telemetry is reasonably, but it seems inappropriate for Google to get a copy and to be able to identify which of their users installed a particular piece of software from the IP address.

So yes. Running their own server would be much preferable.

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For Homebrew:

> The Google Analytics anonymous IP setting is enabled i.e. 1 (https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...)

It's worth noting that AIP's functionality requires you to trust Google -- the data is received by them, but their design specifies that they mask it before it's processed or stored.

Or so they claim.

While I feel we should all treat Google with skepticism here, I didn't realize they (and so failed to acknowledge) that Homebrew was attempting to remedy that, so I apologize for speaking out of turn.

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