alt Hacker Newstl;dr for opt-out as per https://cli.github.com/telemetry#how-to-opt-out (any of these work individually):
export GH_TELEMETRY=false
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true
gh config set telemetry disabled (starting from version 2.91.0, which this announcement refers to)
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> gh config set telemetry false > ! warning: 'telemetry' is not a known configuration key
What's strange is if you check your `~/.config/gh/config.yml` it will put `telemetry: disabled` in there. But it will put anything in that `config.yml` lol.
> gh config set this-is-some-random-bullshit aww-shucks > ! warning: 'this-is-some-random-bullshit' is not a known configuration key
But in my config.yml is
this-is-some-random-bullshit: aww-shucks
... don't forget to recheck this info every update, restore flags that have been "accidentally" reset and set any new flags that they added for "different" telemetry
$ gh --version
gh version 2.90.0 (2026-04-16) https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.90.0
$ gh config set telemetry disabled
! warning: 'telemetry' is not a known configuration key