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Noted. I can't speak for anything other than VS Code but we have the toggle in product which is all you need to change to turn it off for the core, extensions m
by Tyriar 5y ago
Noted. I can't speak for anything other than VS Code but we have the toggle in product which is all you need to change to turn it off for the core, extensions may have their own setting or share the core toggle, but we often can't control that.
There's also the very detailed page on the website detailing this as well as how to see all telemetry events that are sent in real time in the output panel and even how to print out a report of all events that get sent with their classification (code --telemetry).
- siproprio 5y ago"I only speak for my product" Well, I speak from a customer perspective: MS is unethical.
- selfup 5y agoThis comment isn't constructive at all. Keep it on topic and don't blame the messenger.
- dang 5y agoPlease don't flame people like this on HN. Regardless of how strongly you dislike or disagree with $BigCo, we want HN to be a place where people with inside knowledge can speak freely about what they know, without being attacked for it. It would be a bad outcome for HN to disincentivize this. Past explanations of this point: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=disincent%20by:dang&dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?query=disincent%20by:dang&dateRange=.... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: I just noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28814819 - appreciated.
- lazyeye 5y agoI'd like to express the same sentiment against all-pervasive telemetry in a far less civil way but dont want this comment deleted. I really wish I could use stronger language though....
- tragictrash 5y agoThis
- Silhouette 5y agoIf you're interested in collecting feedback and passing it on, the other criticism I have in this area is that Microsoft's privacy policies are incomprehensible. Everything seems to refer to the same huge document in the first instance and that document seems to depend by reference on numerous supporting documents. Even figuring out which supporting documents might be relevant seems to require understanding ambiguous terminology about whether any given application or service fits into various categories. Personally, I'm not interested in messing around with that kind of nonsense. I don't want to engage a lawyer just to find out if I can safely run some software and in the modern world where we're dealing with things like personal data and sensitive business information (including code and clients' proprietary information used to write it) an organisation with Microsoft's recent track record on privacy isn't going to get the benefit of the doubt.
- tekknik 5y agoWith all this backlash on telemetry, is it worth it? What are you actually getting from it beside ruining the progress MS has made with the dev community? Trust is hard to earn and takes seconds to lose. Remove it. Then champion removing it from the rest of MS’s products. If you must spy to learn your market, you should not be in that market. I still hold onto a Sublime Text license waiting for the day MS shows it’s true purpose of making VS code free. Has this day come?
- markus_zhang 5y agoTelemetry is like bureaucracy. Once you have one it's extremely difficult to get rid of it.