Example is appreciated, but not accessible. I personally use Little Snitch and stopped Atom from phoning back to Google Analytics, as I do with all the apps I use, but the comment I was replying to seemed to be shrugging off the data collection by saying "just turn it off" when the truth for most people is "it'll do it at least once but you can turn it off later"
It auto launches after installing in Windows.
Couldn't you just disconnect from the web until Atom was installed and metrics are disabled?
This is why I set windows firewall to disable connections by default and then opt programs in. Visual Studio tries to connect to the internet too.