I don’t know if this is a good indicator or not, but Codespaces costs money. So there is a non-zero probability that you are not the product.
This, I think, is a place where we need some regulation to codify some different forms of privacy and give the government a big stick to bop companies over the head when they violate those definitions. We could potentially manage the definitions as an industry group - but we'd need the government to get the big stick.
I 100% agree with you, but doubt this will ever happen in a heavily pro-surveillance government in an effective corporatocracy. Therefore, I think open source can and needs to do better in providing free competition against potentially-dystopian closed-source alternatives
It's going to be paid by your employer which leads to GP's concern about,
> or build a productivity dashboard so managers can fire people for not being productive enough (like Xsolla did)
Which is more likely. If your employer sets something like this up - will they use it to calculate a productivity score and use that for lay offs? Seems rather probable to me.
If they can sell the product AND sell developer productivity metrics to management, they will.