I can confirm asking to be excluded from refreshes (which AFAIK is still a standing offer, but I obviously can't speak for the mirror team because I am not at G

I can confirm asking to be excluded from refreshes (which AFAIK is still a standing offer, but I obviously can't speak for the mirror team because I am not at Google anymore) would stop all automated traffic from the mirror, and that sr.ht could send a simple HTTP GET to proxy.golang.org for new tags if it wished not to wait for users to request new versions.