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I disabled the telemetry feature before, but the latest vsc version reverts it to enabled automatically, holy creepy. And the latest version introduces many ot

by tapirl 8y ago

I disabled the telemetry feature before, but the latest vsc version reverts it to enabled automatically, holy creepy. And the latest version introduces many other data collection ways. Search them in settings with the keyword "online", you will find them all. Don't know whether or not there are other hidden ways which are not shown in the setting page.

nathantotten 8y ago
I’d file a bug. This is almost certainly not intentional.
- blibble 8y ago
  yeah just like for every large Windows update your default browser accidentally gets reset to MS Edge totally a bug
  - KyeRussell 8y ago
    Microsoft is a very big company and I have absolutely no doubt that the Windows team and the VSCode team hardly ever—if at all—talk. I also question how 'evil' policies like this could propagate across company divisions to the point where they are actually implemented in code—in today's age where engineers have a lot of agency over what they do and often speak up—without someone leaking said policy. This is just a conspiracy theory.
    - bostik 8y ago
      Or perhaps a result of tying team bonuses and promotions to "increased coverage", whatever that means for each product. Not necessarily malicious - just myopic.
- delfinom 8y ago
  Yeah, they've done alot of work recently adding an entire settings UI so it may have broke in that change.
auchenberg 8y ago
Hi It's Kenneth from VS Code. We have looked into this, and haven't found an intentional change that should change your opt-out settings. This shouldn't happen. We have two theories: 1) Your settings file was deleted, which means that you would have lost all of your settings, and not just the telemetry setting. This can happen if the AppData or ~/Library/Application Support was cleaned up. 2) One of your installed extensions updated the settings either accidentally or on purpose. This would require further debugging, and a list of your installed extensions. To help debug this further, it would be great help if you could open an issue on Github, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/, with more details about your OS, VS Code version and installed extensions, so we can figure out what happened. Thanks! /k

by tapirl 8y ago

nathantotten 8y ago

I’d file a bug. This is almost certainly not intentional.

blibble 8y ago
yeah just like for every large Windows update your default browser accidentally gets reset to MS Edge totally a bug
- KyeRussell 8y ago
  Microsoft is a very big company and I have absolutely no doubt that the Windows team and the VSCode team hardly ever—if at all—talk. I also question how 'evil' policies like this could propagate across company divisions to the point where they are actually implemented in code—in today's age where engineers have a lot of agency over what they do and often speak up—without someone leaking said policy. This is just a conspiracy theory.
  - bostik 8y ago
    Or perhaps a result of tying team bonuses and promotions to "increased coverage", whatever that means for each product. Not necessarily malicious - just myopic.
delfinom 8y ago
Yeah, they've done alot of work recently adding an entire settings UI so it may have broke in that change.

auchenberg 8y ago

Hi It's Kenneth from VS Code. We have looked into this, and haven't found an intentional change that should change your opt-out settings. This shouldn't happen. We have two theories: 1) Your settings file was deleted, which means that you would have lost all of your settings, and not just the telemetry setting. This can happen if the AppData or ~/Library/Application Support was cleaned up. 2) One of your installed extensions updated the settings either accidentally or on purpose. This would require further debugging, and a list of your installed extensions. To help debug this further, it would be great help if you could open an issue on Github, https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/, with more details about your OS, VS Code version and installed extensions, so we can figure out what happened. Thanks! /k