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Golang telemetry (again) (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by RuikkaaPrus@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There are no "news", but I'm worried about this business actually. I'm in knowledge that post already exists but I'm not clear at all.

Resuming: Google is trying to add telemetry to Go's toolchain (such as .NET and Dart/Flutter). It also added the GOPROXY environment variable that uses the Google's Go proxy to... Just collect more user data?

I'm a pretty beginner Go dev, but I'd like a toolchain without these telemetry or at least some instruction of how to opt out this thing.

Sorry for repost, but I don't find enough information in any other place. :(

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[–] RuikkaaPrus@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, that means telemetry is optional? How I ensure is currently active or not? Just wanna an explanation. I (as I said) searched about this thing and got almost nothing :(

it’s where all of the mod version is cached, so any time anyone builds a Go package from source, calls are made to the mother ship.

I don't understand it at all. Why I'll need something like that?

Thank you for your response!

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why I’ll need something like that?

IIUC it is mostly to avoid placing huge load on the original package host when people download the same package hundreds of times a day in their CI workflow. It also means that Google can take control over the user experience rather than huge issues coming up every time some smaller host goes down or someone deletes an existing package version.

Overall I doubt that this proxy was added as a source of tracking. And the privacy policy on the service is pretty strict: https://proxy.golang.org/privacy. So even though I am pretty wary of Google overall I think this is actually a fairly reasonable decision by them to have enabled by default.

[–] RuikkaaPrus@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

That's a pretty good explanation about. Care if you reply the source of your information? I'd wanna keep it as reference <3

Thank you!

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't know what you mean by "the source of this concept".

[–] RuikkaaPrus@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

~~Sorry my english spell is a shees.~~

I corrected my post

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

I don't really have a source. It is just me thinking logically about the system and many offhand comments I have read over time. Other than the privacy policy which I have linked.