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Months ago I opened an issue on GitHub asking them if we could get an option to disable / toggle telemetry at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331
by nickjj 6y ago
Months ago I opened an issue on GitHub asking them if we could get an option to disable / toggle telemetry at https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331.
It seemed reasonable considering VSCode is also a Microsoft product with an explicit telemetry option that you can opt out of.
Within 15 minutes the issue was closed and the idea of adding a telemetry option was dismissed by a contributor.
Kind of scary to use something so integral to your day to day as a developer is having that much data being sent out to Microsoft. It's partly why I stick with wsltty (which is equally as fast and has no telemetry).
- nickjj 6y agoIt's too late to edit my original post but since I posted this, a contributor added more comments to the issue. It turns out that as long as you have Basic telemetry settings in Windows then the Terminal app doesn't send anything out to Microsoft by default. This comment goes into more details on what is exactly collected and sent to Microsoft if you use "Enhanced" telemetry (which you don't need to use): https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331#issuecomment-632393919 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/5331#issuecomme...