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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by pabs3 on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:01AM (#34773438)
Yes. It is well past time to start using application firewalls (like OpenSnitch) or VM based OSes like Qubes.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues https://www.qubes-os.org/

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by jeroenhd on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:06AM (#34774275)
OpenSnitch won't help if the dependencies you pull in come through the same server as where the tool uploads the telemetry to. Go works with a Google proxy server for this purpose by default.

You can disable the Go proxy and go for a more direct source fetch with an env variable, but in the same way you can also disable the telemetry.

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by pabs3 on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:10PM (#34784237)
Yeah, I think the only way around that would be for OpenSnitch to block all http/https requests and have a system-wide proxy that sees all the URLs, asks the user, does the approved requests and returns the results.
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