DO_NOT_TRACK=0 is not the same as DBT_SEND_ANONYMOUS_USAGE_STATS=True

[dbeatty10]

What are you changing in this pull request and why?

While responding to dbt-labs/dbt-core#9336, I set DO_NOT_TRACK=0 and examined the result. It does not behave the same way as DBT_SEND_ANONYMOUS_USAGE_STATS=True.

Looking at the source code here explains why.

So we can safely just remove this line from the docs for send_anonymous_usage_stats to avoid confusion.

Additional info

We first added support for the Console Do Not Track initiative within dbt-labs/dbt-core#5000 as described in dbt-labs/dbt-core#3540.

Any of the following are equivalent to DBT_SEND_ANONYMOUS_USAGE_STATS=False (whether they are uppercase, lowercase, or mixed case):

export DO_NOT_TRACK=1
export DO_NOT_TRACK=t
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true
export DO_NOT_TRACK=y
export DO_NOT_TRACK=yes

Any other values of DO_NOT_TRACK are ignored altogether and not have any effect.

Checklist

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[mirnawong1]

lgtm and thank you for opening this up @dbeatty10 !