On: Homebrew 3.0

[Hackbraten]

> spyware

Please.

[sneak → Hackbraten]

Apps that silently transmit your activity without consent are spyware. It's an objective evaluation.

[Hackbraten → sneak]

What makes you think it happens silently or without your consent?

[sneak → Hackbraten]

Silently: it does not print any indication it is transmitting activity data when it does so.

Without consent: it does so automatically, without prompting the user to opt-in to such spying.

[Hackbraten → sneak]

There is a prompt. It’s impossible to miss.

[sneak → Hackbraten]

It is not a prompt; I encourage you to review it. It proceeds automatically.

It also only occurs once, on install, and is silent thereafter on each data exfiltration.

[Hackbraten → sneak]

> It is not a prompt; I encourage you to review it. It proceeds automatically.

It won’t start telemetry until the next invocation. It also clearly tells you the options you have.

That’s as prompt-y as it gets.