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I see a lot of confused comments blaming Microsoft, so to clarify: This analysis is about TRAE, a ByteDance IDE that was forked from VSCode: https://www.trae.ai/
Arguably it was Microsoft who started the whole trend of calling spyware "telemetry" to obfuscate what they were doing.
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Anonymized or not, opt-out telemetry is plain spying. Go was about to find out, and they backed out the last millisecond and converted to opt-in, for example.
Unfortunately opt-in telemetry is like no telemetry at all. Defaults matter.
Why would anyone use a "Bytedance VSCode fork" is beyond me
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It is literally spying on the user. Unless you're somehow saying telemetry doesn't report anything about what a user is doing to it's home server.
Spying and telemetry is not something specific to Bytedance. Example: Google ? Or Microsoft ? Why is it a problem only when it is Bytedance or Huawei ? For the exact same activity In fact the Chinese entities are even less likely to share your secrets to your governement than their best friends at Google
It should be a crime for Google as well.
"Whataboutism" is a logical fallacy.
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Anonymized or not, opt-out telemetry is plain spying. Go was about to find out, and they backed out the last millisecond and converted to opt-in, for example.
Unfortunately opt-in telemetry is like no telemetry at all. Defaults matter.
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It is literally spying on the user. Unless you're somehow saying telemetry doesn't report anything about what a user is doing to it's home server.
Spying and telemetry is not something specific to Bytedance. Example: Google ? Or Microsoft ? Why is it a problem only when it is Bytedance or Huawei ? For the exact same activity In fact the Chinese entities are even less likely to share your secrets to your governement than their best friends at Google
"What about Google" is not a logical continuation of this discussion
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Obfuscate? Telemetry arguably helps with deobfuscation.
> Telemetry arguably helps with deobfuscation. Can you please expand on that? I have trouble understanding how telemetry helps me, as a user of the product, understand how the product works.
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Obfuscate? Telemetry arguably helps with deobfuscation.
> Telemetry arguably helps with deobfuscation. Can you please expand on that? I have trouble understanding how telemetry helps me, as a user of the product, understand how the product works.
Or (if you're working lower level) you can see an obfuscated function is emitting telemetry, saying "User did X", then you can understand that the function is doing X.
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Set up your router to offer DNS through pihole and everything in your network now has tracking and ads blocked, even the wifi dishwasher.
Until everything starts using DoH (DNS over HTTPS). There is pretty much no reason to use anything else as a consumer nowadays. In fact, most web browsers are using DoH, so pihole is useless in that regard.
There's also the Eclipse VScode-look-alike-reimplementation called TheiaIDE https://theia-ide.org/ It was rough a few years ago, but nowadays it's pretty nice. TI rebuilt their Code Composer Studio using Theia so it does have some larger users. It has LSP support and the same Monaco editor backend - which is all I need. It's VSCode-with-an-Eclipse-feel to it - which might or might not be your cup of tea, but it's an…
eclipse still is alive holy shit