Yes we know. brew tells you that. And you can disable it. Data is being sent to Google everytime you do almost anything in almost all websites, using the same technology. So what?
Some of the times it's to make the product better, or better targeted. Some other times it's just for spying on the users.
Let's stop complaining about stuff that someone does and tell you they do it. There are many more that do the same things without telling you.
Furthermore, now that you know, for brew specifically, will you opt out? Is your brew command history so secret that you care more about noone looking at it than helping making brew better? Chances are you use brew quite often. Chances are brew is not perfect. Will you choose to make its progress slower because of no real security reason?
How do we expect open source to become better if everyone is being a crybaby because brew got a history of how often they do brew update?
Some of the times it's to make the product better, or better targeted. Some other times it's just for spying on the users.
Let's stop complaining about stuff that someone does and tell you they do it. There are many more that do the same things without telling you.
Furthermore, now that you know, for brew specifically, will you opt out? Is your brew command history so secret that you care more about noone looking at it than helping making brew better? Chances are you use brew quite often. Chances are brew is not perfect. Will you choose to make its progress slower because of no real security reason?
How do we expect open source to become better if everyone is being a crybaby because brew got a history of how often they do brew update?