That's fair, but doesn't take away from the deeply, deeply exhausting need to do this sort of niche configuration thing for everything out there, let alone even

That's fair, but doesn't take away from the deeply, deeply exhausting need to do this sort of niche configuration thing for everything out there, let alone even recognizing that it's needed. Never mind the unduly need to read changelogs and blog posts to make sure things haven't changed since I last used things. Have you considered using a more-generic opt-out environment variable that's not go specific? For example "USER_PREF_NO_TELEMETRY=true" would have the same effect, or would ensure that GOTELEMETRY=off is set. I have no idea if anything like that exists right now in other projects, but if it's not, then go is large enough and embedded across enough systems that it could be a good place to start.