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https://code.visualstudio.com/download
Visual Studio Code binaries from Microsoft's website is proprietary [1] even though their source code is available under the MIT License. VSCodium provides MIT License builds with Microsoft telemetry removed [2][3]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/license [2] https://vscodium.com/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
Hopefully we can turn "tracking" off in VSCode.