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JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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A few days ago JetBrains put in their answer to other coding AI assistants into their IDES, but decided on top of the nags for their new paid service have made it so it can't be completely removed. If you try to do the normal thing and uninstall or disable it, it appears to just reinstall itself or continues with nags. I'll say nothing on work environments where code cannot be sent anywhere for security and privacy p…

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Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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Oh how the might have fallen. For many years they were the one company that understood developer trust and kept that faith. I’ve seen developers argue for literally months in big companies to get this tooling to be the default and get paid for. I don’t know who needs to be fired over there, but whoever made this decision needs to be and the company needs to make a public apology and public commitment to remove nag fr…

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Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

#23

Oh how the might have fallen. For many years they were the one company that understood developer trust and kept that faith. I’ve seen developers argue for literally months in big companies to get this tooling to be the default and get paid for. I don’t know who needs to be fired over there, but whoever made this decision needs to be and the company needs to make a public apology and public commitment to remove nag fr…

JetBrains's EULA has long been a blank check in terms of sharing information with third parties. Glad to see some light falling in that vicinity.

Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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Oh, come on. It's a high-pressure situation, where they're damned if they don't offer any AI plugins (why are you not as good as X???), and they're damned if they do (why is this freemium crap polluting my otherwise nag-free freeloader experience?)

Things will take a while to settle. Unless your workflow is *truly* broken by the fall-out, save your outrage. And yes, I'm a paying JetBrains customer, don't like their AI offering, but don't really like anyone else's either, so far...

Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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Many plugins can't be completely removed but you can disabled them, was wrong with that? I disabled this one and it hasn't nag me.

The thing about trust is... Once broken it is hard to recover. Here we have 2xshitty behaviors, we can see around this product. Who is to say there isn't more we can't see. Removing it seems 100% reasonable, if only for security purposes.

A disabled plugin has virtually no security implications.

Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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Oh, come on. It's a high-pressure situation, where they're damned if they don't offer any AI plugins (why are you not as good as X???), and they're damned if they do (why is this freemium crap polluting my otherwise nag-free freeloader experience?) Things will take a while to settle. Unless your workflow is *truly* broken by the fall-out, save your outrage. And yes, I'm a paying JetBrains customer, don't like their A…

Sure, but you should at least be able to uninstall the plugin. According to the thread it reinstalls itself on each launch

Re: JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs

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post #20

Many plugins can't be completely removed but you can disabled them, was wrong with that? I disabled this one and it hasn't nag me.

The thing about trust is... Once broken it is hard to recover. Here we have 2xshitty behaviors, we can see around this product. Who is to say there isn't more we can't see. Removing it seems 100% reasonable, if only for security purposes.

By this logic you might as well just removed the whole IDE.
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