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As the post mentioned, even the VSCodium team cannot shutdown all telemetry. Seems some do not have switches?
by phantomathkg 4y ago
As the post mentioned, even the VSCodium team cannot shutdown all telemetry. Seems some do not have switches?
- jacknews 4y agoYou are correct, I didn't read the whole thing completely.
- ensignavenger 4y agoWhy not just remove it from the source code?
- 5d8767c68926 4y agoGiven the frequency of updates, maintaining a privacy fork with anything but minor changes would be a Sisyphean task.
- npteljes 4y agoWhich is exactly what I'd expect from a privacy fork.
- phantomathkg 4y agoHow about we contribute back the changes needed?
- npteljes 4y agoYou mean, you and I should team up for some quality free software work?
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoungoogled-chromium and Bromite do it for Chromium, so it should theoretically be possible for VSCode.
- phantomathkg 4y agoHow about we contribute back the changes needed?
- robotnikman 4y agoMaybe there are dependencies on closed source libraries or API's which report telemetry? I'm no expert on this though.
- techsin101 4y agowont just blocking from host file would be sufficient? add certain domains and ip addresses to the list