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Is Atom still collecting users data? Last I paid attention there was a big furore about having to opt-out and the legality in Europe.

• juli3n 11y ago
  Yep, but you can disable it by disabling the 'metrics' extension.
  • spdustin 11y ago
    That's _after_ the first launch, correct?
    • cha5m 11y ago
      Couldn't you just disconnect from the web until Atom was installed and metrics are disabled?
      • CyberDildonics 11y ago
        This is why I set windows firewall to disable connections by default and then opt programs in. Visual Studio tries to connect to the internet too.
    • Couto 11y ago
      Not necessarily. You can set the property in your ~/.atom/config.cson before the first run. https://github.com/Couto/.dotfiles/blob/master/tag-atom/atom/config.cson#L11-L12 https://github.com/Couto/.dotfiles/blob/master/tag-atom/atom... in case you need an example
      • zuck9 11y ago
        It auto launches after installing in Windows.
      • spdustin 11y ago
        Example is appreciated, but not accessible. I personally use Little Snitch and stopped Atom from phoning back to Google Analytics, as I do with all the apps I use, but the comment I was replying to seemed to be shrugging off the data collection by saying "just turn it off" when the truth for most people is "it'll do it at least once but you can turn it off later"
  • yitchelle 11y ago
    So the metrics collection is ON by default?