Except the article does not. If you turn off telemetry and crash reporting, then there is no telemetry. (Except possibly the telemetry from plugins that choose

Except the article does not. If you turn off telemetry and crash reporting, then there is no telemetry. (Except possibly the telemetry from plugins that choose not to honor the telemetry toggle). This post provides no examples of telemetry being sent when the option is turned off. Now the program does have a variety of spots where it is designed to contact Microsoft services, like say the extension store, or update checks, or other similar functionality. Those services will (obviously) keep some level of logging data, which you cannnot opt out of if VSCode Talks to those services. This is what the terms are talking about when they indicate that not all collected data can be opted out of. There is no "Don't talk to any Microsoft cloud service" feature toggle, sure, but would not really be a sane toggle people actually want. For example that toggle would need to forcibly disable the git support to ensure those features don't try to talk to GitHub if you open code in some GitHub checked out repo. It would disable the extensions store. It would prevent the update checking, etc. VSCodium would end up wanting to rip chunks of that toggle's functionality back out, since for example, VSCodium uses a different non-Microsoft extension store by default, so would want want the extension store to remain disabled.