Did you think that you could work with the github cli tool (aka gh) without being tracked? Guess again!

The github team has decided that from version v2.91.0, the cli will start sending all sort of telemetry data back to the mothership. Personally I like my privacy and telemetry and privacy are death enemies.

Luckily, there is a way to get around it, but they have not made it easy for us.

gh config set telemetry disabled # ignore warning.

Then during login you set the following first:

#bash/zsh
export GH_TELEMETRY=false
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true
#fish
set -gx GH_TELEMETRY false
set -gx DO_NOT_TRACK true

This should fix the problem for now

You can find more info on the new telemetry here: https://cli.github.com/telemetry

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