VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
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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?
#2Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode.
After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing.
I wonder what is the most effective way of actually completely stopping it phoning home, apart from yanking its ethernet cable?
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#3Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
You can always simply install a better text editor that doesn't spy on you.
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#4Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
You can always simply install a better text editor that doesn't spy on you.
Very true. But I have specific reasons for wanting to use vs code in this instance.
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#5Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#6Worth noting that extensions may separately send telemetry, that do not have to adhere to the main VSCode telemetry configuration settings.
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#7Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
I've been using vscodium for the most part but you cannot avoid the extensions themselves sending their own telemetry.
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#8Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
I wonder what is the most effective way of actually completely stopping it phoning home, apart from yanking its ethernet cable?
Use your operating system's firewall app to block all outbound connections from it.
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#9Found this while looking for a way to fully disable telemetry on vscode. After reading, this seems impossible, short of going down to DNS or network blocks of some kind: the "disable telemetry" setting doesn't; extensions have their own telemetry; MS consider the data sufficiently anonymous to be exempt from GDPR, even the vscodium maintainers say they found it impossible to block vs code's eager telemetrizing. I won…
You can always simply install a better text editor that doesn't spy on you.
What better text editor?
Re: VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
#10I honestly wouldn't mind the telemetry but seen as VSCode on Windows will always inevitably completely freeze the entire OS to the point of requiring a restart if you leave it open for long enough, it doesn't give me much faith anyone is looking at it that closely in terms of using it to fix fundamental issues.