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Oh look, Google being Google.

(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

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telemetry in the Go toolchain · Discussion #58409 · golang/go

How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry, which means software sending data to ...
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Filipe
Filipe
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Do you think collecting data on usage can help development teams focus on important features and/or bugs?

I think so. And I also think it's possible to have ethical, private telemetry. I certainly don't think Google is the company I'd trust to do it, but some people genuinely just want to have an automated way to improve other people's lives, I think. And they might work at Google (unfortunately)
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@filipesm Here’s what I know: you enable telemetry by default in your development tools, I stop using your development tools.

Others can make up their own minds what to do.
@Filipe
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Jason
Jason
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exactly.

I’ve seen a lot of these excuses for this action but they all ignore the fact that Google wanted to slip this in without anyone noticing.

I’ve spent the last year learning Go, and I’ve really enjoyed it and built some cool stuff, but now I’m done, and I feel like a fucking fool for wasting my time when I should have known that anything google touches will be turned into a surveillance device.

@filipesm
@Filipe
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Sandra
Sandra
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"I am only suggesting that the instrumentation be added to the Go command-line tools written and distributed by the Go team, such as the go command"

That word "only" is biting off more than it can chew 🤦🏻‍♀️

Putting it in the go command was like the worst case scenario I was picturing and they went right there 😭
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Rémi Letot
Rémi Letot
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@kensanata yep, but they also marked many negative comments as spam and/or off-topic. Nice way to discuss... @aral
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