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I guess this is only what you can find out from tcpdump and strace ? Reading the EULA/privacy policy is way scarier, for example content of files, network information, other apps on your computer, and web searches.

If you are using a free - as in free beer - and not free as in free software - you are the product!

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> If you are using a free - as in free beer - and not free as in free software - you are the product!

True. And increasingly, paying for the software doesn't make this any better.

The currently available information is all from browsing documentation and scanning source code. Some people suggested looking into JetBrains IDEs, which isn’t open-source, and thus would require packet sniffing.

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