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I'm confused. When I go get ... is it "phoning home" to Google? I could wireshark it, but since we're all here...


It accesses the module proxy proxy.golang.org, which is run by Google. If you want to opt-out of this module mirror, you can turn it off by setting GOPROXY=direct.

The proxy has a clear privacy policy: https://proxy.golang.org/privacy It collects anonymized usage metrics like other package registries (rubygems.org, nuget.org, crates.io) do.


Okay, thanks. Seems harmless enough and has an opt out.




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