The package they are using “vscode-extension-telemetry” actually does use the global setting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry/blob/maste

The package they are using “vscode-extension-telemetry” actually does use the global setting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry/blob/master/src/telemetryReporter.ts https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry/blob... Third-party extensions can read that setting too so they can respect the global choice.