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Re:Why does Debian change software? by enfuse on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:35AM (#44061908)
> Telemetry is perfectly acceptable as long as it is opt-in and does not contain personal data, and both apply to Go's telemetry, so there's no need for a fork.

This changed somewhat recently. Telemetry is enabled by default (I think as of Golang 1.23?)

I am only aware since I relatively recently ran into something similar to this on a fresh VM without internet egress: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/68976

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/68946

If golang doesn't fully address this I guess Debian really should at least change the default (of they haven't already).

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Re:Why does Debian change software? by deng on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:46AM (#44062013)
It creates telemetry data, but actually transmitting it is opt-in.
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Re:Why does Debian change software? by enfuse on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:51AM (#44062060)
Attempts to contact external telemetry servers under default configuration is the issue. That not all of the needlessly locally aggregated data would actually be transmitted is separate.
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