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Then don’t use it?

I did not know about this issue until now. But, sure, if you let me borrow your time machine.

The first time you run homebrew, it tells you it’s going to record usage analytics, with details on how to find out more or disable that behavior.

But does it tell you it's using GA?

It tells you it’s recording usage data, and links you to the docs that show where it goes, how to view the data yourself, how to opt out, and why the collect the data:

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/68e895ad4d374b4a002261...

https://docs.brew.sh/Analytics

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