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Here's a sampling of stuff I've semi-recently encountered on Github that all spy on you by default. For some, it's undocumented, for others it's a minor subsect
by yencabulator 2y ago
Here's a sampling of stuff I've semi-recently encountered on Github that all spy on you by default. For some, it's undocumented, for others it's a minor subsection in the docs. (Some of them are source-available not free, I didn't keep track as I collected the URLs.)
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed https://github.com/zed-industries/zed
https://github.com/microsoft/vscode https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone https://github.com/keystonejs/keystone
https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch https://github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch
https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine
https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch/ https://github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch/
https://github.com/coder/code-server https://github.com/coder/code-server
https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod https://github.com/loft-sh/devpod
https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit https://github.com/quickwit-oss/quickwit
https://github.com/rilldata/rill-developer/ https://github.com/rilldata/rill-developer/
https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus https://github.com/hocus-dev/hocus
https://github.com/firezone/firezone https://github.com/firezone/firezone
Here's a write-up of how bad it gets -- it's pretty obnoxious: https://www.roboleary.net/tools/2022/04/20/vscode-telemetry.html https://www.roboleary.net/tools/2022/04/20/vscode-telemetry....
- jraph 2y agoVSCode is proprietary. That's why the difference between Codium and VSCode matters. Actually, IIRC the code from the ms repo does not do telemetry, they add it to the binary they distribute.