cli-privacy

CLI Privacy: Opt-out of third-party tracking in your terminal.

It's becoming more common for software makers to track how people use their software in private, often without the user's knowledge. Some provide a way to opt-out, but there's no universal standard for doing so. To opt-out across every tool requires digging through documentation, and modifying your shell configuration.

cli-privacy aims to aggregate that app-specific opt-out knowledge in one place. Install and configure cli-privacy once, and it will automatically opt you out of behavioral tracking across a growing list of third party tools.

Installation

With Homebrew

1. Run brew install rfletcher/cask/cli-privacy.
2. Add source /usr/local/bin/cli-privacy to your shell's init file. (For example .bash_profile or .zprofile.)

Manually

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the cli-privacy script to any directory you like.
3. Add source /path/to/cli-privacy to your shell's init file. (For example .bash_profile or .zprofile.)

Helping

Can you add to the list of tools supported by cli-privacy? Please submit a pull request!

Acknowledgements

cli-privacy was inspired by Console Do Not Track, which tackles the same problem from another direction.