Some Homebrew commands send data to Google Analytics vs. port mpstats

[Russell Jones]

A tickbox in the installer wouldn't hurt, I guess?

Russell


On 27/11/16 05:48, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I also read that article yesterday.
>
> Because our statistics are opt in, and the user is not invited to enable them during the installation, and they are not described in the guide or anywhere that I'm aware of, the number of users who have found and enabled it are minuscule and probably not representative of MacPorts users as a whole.
>
> The lack of statistics about how many users use MacPorts and what ports they have installed is probably hurting us.
>
> -Ryan
>
>
>> On Nov 26, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Marko Käning <mk-macports at posteo.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the other day I found an article on hacker news [1] which eventually made clear
>> that homebrew actually sends (some) data to google analytics by default [2]!
>>
>> I am happy about MacPorts’ “analytics” by port mpstats being absolutely opt-in
>> and keeping the data within MacPorts (Clemens’ server in fact) and doesn’t try
>> anything funny!
>>
>> Thanks, MacPorts for caring (more) about its users privacy!
>>
>> Greets,
>> Marko
>>
>>
>> [1] https://tobiastom.name/notes/7a79eed0
>> [2] https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/7f13b37b903564e2a64cea982d6b84d1aa6b800b/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.sh#L73-L94
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