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I liked VS Code when I tried it. But... It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obt

I liked VS Code when I tried it. But... It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption. I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.

tw04 10y ago
Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later: http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#... Windows Close VS Code. Open the command prompt. Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app Type notepad product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false. Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled. OS X / Linux Close VS Code. Open the terminal For: Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app Type vi product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.
- orbitingpluto 10y ago
  Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes. Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
- mook 10y ago
  The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it. I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.
  - orbitingpluto 10y ago
    Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.

tw04 10y ago

Umm, you can disable it globally. They have pretty amazing documentation, 3 seconds of searching later: http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting http://vscode-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/supporting/faq/#... Windows Close VS Code. Open the command prompt. Type cd %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Visual Studio Code\resources\app Type notepad product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false. Save the file via CTRL+S and exit Notepad. Collection of usage data should now be disabled. OS X / Linux Close VS Code. Open the terminal For: Mac Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Visual\ Studio\ Code.app/Contents/Resources/app Linux Type cd <PATH-TO-VSCode>/Resources/app Type vi product.json Replace enableTelemetry=true with enableTelemetry=false Save the file via Esc ZZ. Collection of usage data should now be disabled.

orbitingpluto 10y ago
Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes. Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...
mook 10y ago
The current docs ( https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-di... ) seems to indicate that it's just a normal pref now, you don't need to edit the app to do it. I wasn't able to figure out what version readthedocs was last generated for.
- orbitingpluto 10y ago
  Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.