Does Moq extract and send my email to the cloud via SponsorLink?

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Going by reports in the releated Github issue Moq does not let users opt out of this privacy-invading data collection: https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1372

This is sad. Moq was my favorite mocking framework in .net. I will not be using it moving forward and if I had any projects using it I'd rip it out ASAP.

https://www.cazzulino.com/sponsorlink.html

Sponsorlink reads your local git configuration, grabs the email address from there and does an online check whether your email address is a sponsor of the project...

Never mind the GDPR shitstorm, but what about projects with multiple developers, does everyone have to sponsor or suffer a build delay?

Oh, and the cloud end of SponsorLink is closed source, by design: https://github.com/devlooped/SponsorLink/issues/13

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