Does ollama phone home?

im new to using ai so i may be missing something. I set up ollama but dont want any of my data to go to any of the model providers, for certain models i appear to need an api key to download the model and if its a local model why would i need an api key unless they are collecting data? is there some reason they need an api key besides this or is that just the price of using those models? edit: i figured out how to download and install other models without using any keys but im having trouble getting it to output anything besides text im specifically interested in pdf generation submitted by /u/Willy-the-kid [link] [comments]

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Source: r/ollama | 2026-09-09