beatcracker / toptout

📡 Easily opt-out from telemetry collection
https://toptout.me
MIT License
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Introduce a shell script with disabled telemetry for everything #625

Closed ligurio closed 7 months ago

ligurio commented 7 months ago

List on https://toptout.me/ describes steps how to disable telemetry for different applications. However, there is no single env variable that will be supported by all or most part of applications (like NO_COLOR ^1) and telemetry should be disabled separately for every application.

I suggest introducing a shell script that could be sourced to .profile and thus will disable telemetry for everything described in toptout.me. Like this:

...
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS_THIS_RUN=1
HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS=1
LYNX_ANALYTICS=1
...
beatcracker commented 7 months ago

Have a look at ./examples, should be exactly what you're looking for 🤗. Do you have ideas on how this can be made more discoverable?

ligurio commented 7 months ago

Have a look at ./examples, should be exactly what you're looking for 🤗.

Oh, very nice! This is exactly what I need.

Do you have ideas on how this can be made more discoverable?

I have no idea why I have overlooked it. It is a third bullet in the README ^1 :man_facepalming:

ligurio commented 7 months ago

@beatcracker thanks for the project!