I expect that if it was opt-in most people wouldn't take the active step to do so. And if given a choice on first-run, a large proportion of users would choose to disable the analytics reporting.
Making it opt-out seems deceitful - an attempt to trick users into leaving it enabled.
And the Homebrew developer responses thus far on the GitHub issue (users should be watching the documentation and Twitter feed - they'd have seen the announcement) seem unrealistic and unfair.
This should have been opt-in from day one, not opt-out. Especially if it's changing existing behaviour (having never automatically reported telemetry in the past).
I expect that if it was opt-in most people wouldn't take the active step to do so. And if given a choice on first-run, a large proportion of users would choose to disable the analytics reporting.
Making it opt-out seems deceitful - an attempt to trick users into leaving it enabled.
And the Homebrew developer responses thus far on the GitHub issue (users should be watching the documentation and Twitter feed - they'd have seen the announcement) seem unrealistic and unfair.
This should have been opt-in from day one, not opt-out. Especially if it's changing existing behaviour (having never automatically reported telemetry in the past).