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>This marks quite a change in attitude where the end user is suddenly responsible for staying on top of newly silently introduced opt-out settings. I'm pretty disappointed and feel the amount of trust I've had in the maintainers have dropped considerably.

I agree with you. I'd much rather have this be out in the open - like, ever 5th time I run 'brew' or something, it asks me for permission to send analytics, and the options are "YES-once, YES-Always, NO-NEVER", and if I say NO, NEVER, it never asks me again.

If spying on me can be automated, so can not spying on me.



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