It certainly appears not. They're using curl and reporting a UID they generate. ... | Hacker News

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		x0x0 on April 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Homebrew now sends usage information to Google Ana... It certainly appears not. They're using curl and reporting a UID they generate. `A Homebrew analytics user ID e.g. 1BAB65CC-FE7F-4D8C-AB45-B7DB5A6BA9CB. This is generated by uuidgen and stored in ~/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid. This does not allow us to track individual users but does enable us to accurately measure user counts vs. event counts` https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/master/share/doc/homeb... Of course, you have to trust homebrew, but hell, you're already running their software, so it's a little late.

hk__2 on April 25, 2016 [–]

You can always even check the code that’s running on your own computer. If you installed Homebrew in /usr/local the relevant files are /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.sh and /usr/local/Library/Homebrew/utils/analytics.rb.

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