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Disappointed by these other answers. Whether you should care comes down to your ideology. My view: I totally see the value in tracking your users, but I also b
by zachlatta 10y ago
Disappointed by these other answers.
Whether you should care comes down to your ideology. My view: I totally see the value in tracking your users, but I also believe there should always be an option to opt out. Tracking becomes insidious when you lose the right to not participate.
By choosing to opt out, you're showing Microsoft that there are people that genuinely care about being able to not be tracked, making it more likely for them to keep this option for the future.
- jsheard 10y ago> By choosing to opt out, you're showing Microsoft that there are people that genuinely care about being able to not be tracked, making it more likely for them to keep this option for the future. How is Microsoft supposed to know you disabled telemetry? VSCode can't tell them you did, that would be a form of telemetry :P
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- mook 10y agoThey still get update requests (_something_ keeps telling me once a month that there's a new version out, even with telemetry off); that can be compared to the number of unique users with actual telemetry to find the number with it off.
- tdrd 10y agoThis presumes that MS tracks the fact that you've opted out of tracking, which is not obviously the case.