add warning about Go's past and future data collection
Based on https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409, the Go compiler already defaults to using a google proxy server, which would allow Google to collect information about what dependencies users are installing. (Of course they claim they won't.) Two separate environment settings are needed to turn that off, and users in that thread were surprised to learn about one of them. So this warning is already appropriate to some extent. Also based on the minimisation of user concerns by the golang developers on that issue and elsewhere, it seems best to assume that they are not going to be dissuaded from increasing data collection efforts in the future, even if the blowback prevents this particular attempt. So this warning should not be removed unless the Go community somehow extricates itself from Google's control. Or unless ipfs is rewritten in another language. Some distros do have ipfs. Unfortunately, Debian appears to be structurally incapable of packaging it. (8 years and counting; https://bugs.debian.org/779893). So lots of users will be stuck installing it from source or having to trust its official binaries.
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This special remote stores file contents in [ipfs](http://ipfs.io/).
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Warning: ipfs is written in Go, a language controlled by Google, which
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collects user's data with its compiler. If installing ipfs from source
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you should consider investigating how to disable Go's data collection.
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Or install precompiled ipfs from a software distributor you trust.
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## prerequisites
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* git-annex version 5.20150305 or newer.
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* Install [[external/git-annex-remote-ipfs]] somewhere in PATH
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and `chmod +x` the script.
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* Install [go-ipfs](https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs) somewhere in PATH.
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