> not brew, that one is also spyware
how is brew spyware?
how is brew spyware?
It does this silently, and without obtaining any sort of consent, which is why most people are unaware that homebrew is spying on them.
> You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew. Analytics are not enabled until after this notice is shown, to ensure that you can opt out without ever sending analytics data.
Then, at runtime, it proceeds to silently transmit the data each time you run brew.
The project still doesn't seem to understand how bad of a mistake this was and how bad their response to it was. But as the project lead told us while playing the victim, if we're not contributors, our opinions on the matter mean nothing.
Every time I've ever seen anyone question their decision to embed Google spyware in their product, however, the GitHub issues are closed and locked, so I don't know if you'll have very good luck. I stopped trying to convince them to behave ethically and simply use nixpkgs now instead (which incidentally in my experience works better) and do my best to inform people about the facts so they can make their own decisions (something I wish homebrew would do, instead of deciding for them to use their computer to spy).
Since they don't ask for consent and uses PII, it is illegal under GDPR, probably CCPA and other laws too. It's also Not Nice™.