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

[Marko Käning]

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