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Enabled by default -> Bad Give user option to enable to improve product -> Good
And possibly keep telemetry data (all of it) auditable by users, so that they know exactly what they are opting in to transmit.
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The end of the article mentions that VS Codium, while having less telemetry, still calls out to Microsoft services. They try to remove all telemetry, read more about that here. ... However, VSCodium can’t shut out all the data collection as it is the same codebase. And since extensions act independently with regard to data collection, you still need to be mindful of what extensions you install.
I mean that's the same deal with browser extensions. Good to mention, but hardly a surprise.
Vscode as an IDE is quite useless without it's extensions. And that includes official(?) extensions from Microsoft that also might have other policies regarding tracking.
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That too seems to be only true in most cases but not all. How could I inspect the code of the Adobe extension linked above before installing it in Visual Studio Code for example? There doesn't seem to be any links to the actual code for it.
Just download it without installing it.
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Just download it without installing it.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out how to do. The website I linked before doesn't seem to have any links to download it, so how do I actually do that? What's the link for downloading it?
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Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out how to do. The website I linked before doesn't seem to have any links to download it, so how do I actually do that? What's the link for downloading it?
From the 2 marketplace links you linked above, click "Download Extension" on the right side of the page. Rename that file from .vsix to .zip then extract the zip file to get a folder containing the source files for the extension. It's not as readable as if they published open source on GitHub, but you can still see what the extension is doing.
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One of the challenges is defining what counts as telemetry. So they include an OFF switch. Does it also switch off checking for new versions of VSCode? Does it turn off consulting online sources for dictionary updates? Does it turn off viewing the extension library? Those requests are technically also telemetry but if you disable them they look like broken features. The license agreement is written with open language…
Those examples are not telemetry because they only pull data from internet, without sending any specific information. You could check for new versions of VSCode or browse extensions library using just a browser.
Corporations demand more certainty than "might carry the day" from their legal departments when drafting terms of service.
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VS Codium https://vscodium.com/
How often is this updated? I looked at it previously but there were enough caveats/comments to make me weary on using it. I checked the website too but couldnt get (or missed) a definitive answer
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> This is is actually a terrible trap, as product usage tells you next to nothing about which features are useful. I suspect it' a big part of why a lot of software has turned to shit last decade or so. This seems exactly backwards to me. No one who has ever managed a deployed product with good failure telemetry would say that it tells you "next to nothing". Telemetry detects failures that mere testing simply never c…
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