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Most of the extensions are open source and you can see the telemetry being collected, which is used to understand feature usage and diagnose bugs. The suggestion (with no evidence) that the telemetry is somehow insidious is FUD.

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Right we've caught, let's see… {a thousand companies (including MS), governments around the word, and associated criminals} with their hand in the cookie-jar, over and over and over again, yet there's "no evidence." Billion-dollar databroker businesses non-withstanding. MS was first in line for the NSA as well.

I don't think all the telemetry is particularly useful, but there is no reason to give MS the benefit of the doubt here.

I don't totally agree with you on this. Telemetry on open source extension is public and opt-out, but it is neither on the MS VSCode builds or proprietary extensions. Additionally, I just can't believe that Microsoft uses telemetry data just for bug fixing, even without evidences, but that's only my opinion.

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