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Install those languages in a VM if you're concerned about things they phone home about. Not sure if the metrics being sent is the biggest problem unless you're
by jansommer 4y ago
Install those languages in a VM if you're concerned about things they phone home about. Not sure if the metrics being sent is the biggest problem unless you're super paranoid about intellectual property theft.
- EMM_386 4y ago> Not sure if the metrics being sent is the biggest problem unless you're super paranoid about intellectual property theft. Exactly, there seems to be a high level of paranoia with some developers about any software that "phones home". I can see possible fears stuff being sent in crash reports if you are working on highly sensitive software or really worried about IP theft, but other than that I don't think telemetry in products like VS Code is sending the contents of your hard drive to Microsoft. They use that limited information to improve the tooling, which benefits everyone. Maybe I'm just getting old and tired, but I leave it on and am not overly concerned with it. I used to be a lot more critical of things like this, but everything is so interconnected these days it's not worth the battle. Besides, I'm sure every megacorporation already knows my entire life story by this point with all the really invasive tracking that goes on on the web and on my phone.