The typical web dev won't care though, and go ahead downloading and installing a telemetry encumbered server onto the remote machine. All they need is the justi

The typical web dev won't care though, and go ahead downloading and installing a telemetry encumbered server onto the remote machine. All they need is the justification: "But it works!" DevOps can tell them no all day long, they'll think they know better and give in to convenience over security every time. What one could do is to block the download of VS Code on all infrastructure.