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That is fine from my point of view. You, vscode and the extension have an agreement of how the data is handled, where is sent to and how it is processed. It bec
by gabrielgio 4y ago
That is fine from my point of view. You, vscode and the extension have an agreement of how the data is handled, where is sent to and how it is processed. It becomes a problem when the vscode or an extension ignores the no telemetry settings, keeps sending data, and we have no much of a clue how it is going to be store/processed/used for.
- welder 4y agovscode extensions are open source so the community should report and vscode should ban extensions behaving badly. That's the same way all plugin marketplaces work, nothing bad vscode is doing with their extension setup.
- capableweb 4y agoIt's probably true that many Visual Studio Code extensions are Open Source, but there are plenty that are not. Here is one from a random person on the internet which has the license "All rights reserved": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LiamNeville.emoji-icon-fun-theme https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LiamNevi... Here is another by Adobe that doesn't have a license linked to it (presumed proprietary): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adobe-coldfusion.adobe-cfml-lsp https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adob...
- welder 4y agoSorry, I meant you could see the source code not the source code's license.
- capableweb 4y agoThat too seems to be only true in most cases but not all. How could I inspect the code of the Adobe extension linked above before installing it in Visual Studio Code for example? There doesn't seem to be any links to the actual code for it.
- welder 4y agoJust download it without installing it.
- capableweb 4y agoYeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out how to do. The website I linked before doesn't seem to have any links to download it, so how do I actually do that? What's the link for downloading it?
- welder 4y agoFrom the 2 marketplace links you linked above, click "Download Extension" on the right side of the page. Rename that file from .vsix to .zip then extract the zip file to get a folder containing the source files for the extension. It's not as readable as if they published open source on GitHub, but you can still see what the extension is doing.
- capableweb 4y agoDuh, silly of me to miss that. Thank you a lot for clarifying!