Post #1540025
2026-04-22 18:39 UTC
The newest gh CLI has added telemetry:
"As agentic adoption of GitHub CLI grows, our team needs visibility into how features are being used in practice."
Opt out with any of these:
export GH_TELEMETRY=false # any falsy value: 0, false, disabled
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true
gh config set telemetry disabled
https://cli.github.com/telemetry
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.91.0
#GitHub #CLI #telemetry
Replies (7)
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@OpenSauce@fosstodon.org 2026-04-22 18:45
@hugovk Oh fuck that, thanks for including disabling info in the post
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@andreagrandi@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 19:50
@hugovk I so much hate when they do opt out things like this. I hope EU privacy laws will hit them hard in the face sooner or later
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io 2026-04-22 19:52
@hugovk I might have forgotten to uninstall this package but I haven’t updated it yet. Thank you for the warning!
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@worik@mastodon.social 2026-04-22 20:56
I am moving to codeburg.org/worik GitHub is tiring, unreliable, run by a corporate monster...
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@justin@toot.io 2026-04-23 10:16
@hugovk just #GiveUpGitHub
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@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems 2026-04-23 11:33
@hugovk, thanks for the warning. I've filed a request to disable it when the Gentoo package is bumped. https://bugs.gentoo.org/973099
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@wegegeld@toot.berlin 2026-04-24 06:18
@hugovk it's funny how the more big tech collects data about their users, the less they care about their users wishes and needs.