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by rvz·7y ago·view on hn ↗
> This means a proxy, governed by the Google Privacy Policy, is now capturing everyone's module usage by default.

No surprise there, was even called a 'privacy nut' on the neighboring Android 10 thread for highlighting the nature of Google's 'privacy' stance. So essentially they turn on tracking / analytics on by default for module usage without consent or any notice except for the lengthy privacy policy. This reminds me of when Microsoft VC++ embedded analytics in the developer binary when using the compiler. [0]

But then again, Google can do what it pleases since Golang is authored by Googlers.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...

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> "without consent or any notice except for the lengthy privacy policy"

There's also there in release notes:

> "The GOPROXY environment variable may now be set to a comma-separated list of proxy URLs or the special token direct, and its default value is now https://proxy.golang.org "