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Does VSCode 1.0 still come with the tracking and analytics (phone home stuff) that cannot be turned off?
by frik 11y ago
Does VSCode 1.0 still come with the tracking and analytics (phone home stuff) that cannot be turned off?
- equasar 11y agoWhat? Never heard of that, but I wouldn't mind if it's on either.
- avtar 11y agoIt was possible to disable that pre-1.0 by adding the following to your config file: "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false
- frik 11y agoEvery update reseted the file.
- Kequc 11y agoThe second sentence in the first paragraph suggests they are actively performing some form of tracking. > Today, we’re excited to report that more than 500,000 developers actively use VS Code each month. I've come to expect Microsoft is just going to do that, and it needs to be accepted if you want to use their stuff. Fighting against it is a recipe for a headache. Unfortunately (or fortunately) this editor is great for Typescript and that's my passion. A competitor should show up in this space and make me even happier.
- carussell 11y agoIf you build from source instead of downloading from code.visualstudio.com, those things are disabled by default.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- shankun 11y agoIt is turned on, but you can turn off either crash reporting, or usage telemetry reporting, or both. Please see https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-crash-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di.... Scroll down to see more on usage telemetry reporting.