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Wait a minute, there is tracking involved in a code editor? No, it's not in anyone's best interest. It can't be. Any info collected with tracking could also be used for other, malign purposes, covertly and illegally. I understand your perspective, I wish it was true as a fact. But it isn't. What I've learned in the recent years - don't trust anything that tracks and collects data unless it's your own thing.
There's a pretty wide area between a skeptic and a conspiracy theorist, but this kind of mentality certainly leans toward the latter. Logic dictates it's vastly more likely the data collected is to improve the editor, than a multi-national multi-billion dollar company collecting data to use it illegally.
As grandparent OP said, in recent years this has moved waaaaay beyond theory territory and been shown time and time again that + NSA + FBI + CIA + intelligence agencies around the world all employ different ways of collecting analytical data broadcast over the internet.
NSA just taps the servers without telling anyone.
FBI sends National Security Letters containing gag orders preventing companies from telling you that the federal government is now a data sharing partner.
CIA just pays companies for it.
FISA court issues secret rulings justifying the legality of it all.
Whether that bothers you or not is up to you. Most people don't care. I usually don't. I wouldn't say "logic dictates this won't happen" when it is pretty much only the multi-national multi-billion dollar companies subject to this kind of tampering, and most incentivized to monetize the analytics by allowing these and unknown third parties in.
To avoid the security exhaustion, some people would simply prefer their text editor not be "smart", which is a euphemism for internet connected.