Come on. You must realize VS Code and basically every website you use collects telemetry data, which is rarely for anything nefarious except product improvements. If GitHub/Microsoft had released this product, would you be raising the same concerns?
> If GitHub/Microsoft had released this product, would you be raising the same concerns?
Yes. It’s one of the reasons I use the open source build instead.
History has shown that telemetry is effectively spyware until proven otherwise, no matter who does it.
It's not for everyone but yes there are still Don Quixotes like me fighting the army of windmills :)
I suspect the proportion of us here at HN is pretty high too.
Microsoft is a criminal enterprise that relatively recently got god to a degree and actually started caring about their image at home while still facilitating crime and corruption abroad. The fact that many are stupid enough to trust them with their data does not imply that this is a reasonable choice.
Up until now, you've had to make these design decisions on your own, relying only on perplexing intangibilities like 'taste' and 'intuition'.