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VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by xeromal »

gabrielgio wrote: post #18
NGRhodes wrote: post #6

Worth noting that extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.

What a gross oversight from their part. Not only they build a product that, as pointed by the post, sends a excessive amount of data, but also allows anyone to do the same. > Why have licenses like these if they are just concerned with product improvement? That nails it for me. I have no reason whatsoever to use vscode.

Sounds like install rogue extensions is on the user. lol

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by pseudalopex »

falcolas wrote: post #20

Telemetry is godsend for developers, since it lets them track down actual product usage and issues. Telemetry is a privacy nightmare for users, since it sends data to the developers outside of an average user's control - data which is probably easily associated with an individual and kept for eons (disk space is cheap after all). I think telemetry collection is starting to become a professional ethics issue for devel…

Collecting data without informed consent was an ethics issue always.

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by [deleted] »

edgyquant wrote: post #32
throwaway22032 wrote: post #29

It's Microsoft. It's what they do. It's been 20+ years. I'm not even old. I just don't understand how people haven't figured this out yet.

Okay but companies don’t just add telemetry because it’s a fun and exciting engineering challenge. They do so for legitimate engineering and business reasons. These solutions have privacy nuance they are not black and white/evil v good

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Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by ensignavenger »

phantomathkg wrote: post #27
jacknews wrote: post #25

There's always vscodium which which doesn't have the tracking, similar to Chromium browser vs Chrome: https://vscodium.com/

As the post mentioned, even the VSCodium team cannot shutdown all telemetry. Seems some do not have switches?

Why not just remove it from the source code?

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by belter »

edgyquant wrote: post #32
throwaway22032 wrote: post #29

It's Microsoft. It's what they do. It's been 20+ years. I'm not even old. I just don't understand how people haven't figured this out yet.

Okay but companies don’t just add telemetry because it’s a fun and exciting engineering challenge. They do so for legitimate engineering and business reasons. These solutions have privacy nuance they are not black and white/evil v good

Enabled by default -> Bad

Give user option to enable to improve product -> Good

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by alrlroipsp »

nerdjon wrote: post #43
jacknews wrote: post #25

There's always vscodium which which doesn't have the tracking, similar to Chromium browser vs Chrome: https://vscodium.com/

I love VSCodium. I wish they could find a way around some missing plugins, but it does what I need it to.

Just fix your marketplace settings and use official plugins :)

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#ext...

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by nerdjon »

alrlroipsp wrote: post #47
nerdjon wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love VSCodium. I wish they could find a way around some missing plugins, but it does what I need it to.

Just fix your marketplace settings and use official plugins :) https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#ext...

... please tell me this is a recent fix and not something that I missed when I looked a year or so ago?

Thank you! Was always annoying when coworkers would tell me about a plugin that I could not install (or worse, had an old broken one)

Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?

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Post by [deleted] »

gabrielgio wrote: post #18
NGRhodes wrote: post #6

Worth noting that extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.

What a gross oversight from their part. Not only they build a product that, as pointed by the post, sends a excessive amount of data, but also allows anyone to do the same. > Why have licenses like these if they are just concerned with product improvement? That nails it for me. I have no reason whatsoever to use vscode.

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