Homebrew betrayed us all to Google (opens in new tab)

Technically the EU cookie law does not require notification for cookies associated with the basic functions of the site.

All those annoying prompts are covering the use of nonfunctional aspects such as tracking.

It very much depends on the thing you're opting into or out of. For example, a better default for organ donation has saved lots of lives: https://sparq.stanford.edu/solutions/opt-out-policies-increa...

Why is that a problem? If you are the type of person that is paranoid about anonymous usage data you will be very well versed in opting out of things because that's pretty much the standard. Homebrew is even notifying users that they are starting analytics and that you can opt-out. Here's what I just got on my terminal:

   ==> Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics
   Read the analytics documentation (and how to opt-out) here:
     https://git.io/brew-analytics 

The vast majority of users want Homebrew to work better and are fine with the developers knowing which packages are the most popular. This is not "betrayal".

Have you ever looked at Google Analytics information? They don't even give you individual IP addresses or anything like that. They actually do a GOOD job of anonymyzing data like that. You could track more information if you did it by yourself without Google Analytics. It's not really a big deal for someone to track what languages and what browsers people use on their sites.