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Golang telemetry (again)
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2024
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As long as it's opt-in (which it is), I'm not sure I understand the concern. You'd have to enable it.
Go has been routing module requests through GOPROXY since modules were introduced; 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. Unless the builder is running their own proxy, which is mostly corps, who care less about this sort of telemetry. There are good, valid reasons for the main Go proxy, but it's certainly also a valid concern that the Go core dev team is utterly deaf to.
In any case, the only thing that's new is the telemetry which, as I mentioned, is opt-in. I don't see any reason for new concern.
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 :(
I don't understand it at all. Why I'll need something like that?
Thank you for your response!
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.
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!
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.
I don't know what you mean by "the source of this concept".
~~Sorry my english spell is a shees.~~
I corrected my post