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After installing VSCodium, you must manually disable telemetry in your settings file to stop it from sending tracking data to Microsoft. https://github.com/VSC
by smartbit 8y ago
After installing VSCodium, you must manually disable telemetry in your settings file to stop it from sending tracking data to Microsoft.
https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#getting-all-the-telemetry-out https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium#getting-all-the-telemet...
- macns 8y agoEven though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default. After installing VSCodium, you must manually disable telemetry in your settings file to stop it from sending tracking data to Microsoft. The instructions here and here help with disabling telemetry.
- kardos 8y agoGood first issue for a new contributor?
- userbinator 8y agoThat makes me wonder why they didn't just go all the way? Was there "advice" from MS to not do so?
- WalterGR 8y agoBy the scare quotes around “advice” do you mean threats? Since VSCode is Free Software, what has VSCodium done that opens them to litigation from Microsoft?
- userbinator 8y agoNot in the legal sense but more like a "if you would like to remain on good terms with the community, we really appreciate you doing X" sort of thing.
- WalterGR 8y agoWhat does that even mean? There are no strict limits on paranoia... Maybe Satya Nadella threatened to literally murder everyone involved with VSCodium.
- IronBacon 8y agoSo what they write here [1] about the OSS version with stripped telemetry is not correct then? [1]https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss/issues/6 https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss/issues/...