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For all the people going with "just use vscode"

at least use VSCodium as it is a community-driven, freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode

I don’t really mind the telemetry vscode sends. There are only so many ways the developers of an application can get feedback on usage and performance patterns.

Metrics are important in any service or product you build as it allows you to better understand your user and adjust your product or roadmap.

I also remember the option to disable the telemetry has been added but it still reported the fact that you disabled it which I think they’d fix but cant find the github issue :/

It's so sad that we are living in an age where you cannot trust any sort of telemetry in fear of having your data exploited.

Telemetry makes sense but I mind individual apps making any network connections and sending/receiving whatever is not essential to solving the actual task I use them for, let alone send data about me in a black-box manner. There should be a centralized system service apps would pass telemetry to for it to send it further and all the data should be in human-readable format.

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