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VS Code – What's the deal with the telemetry?
VS Code - What’s the deal with the telemetry?.
VS Code collects telemetry data to help understand Microsoft how to improve the product. Is it above board? Can I turn it off completely?
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Hallski
Sadly in line with every other piece of software these days. Got to get that data!
In this case there are great alternatives in Vim or Emacs though.
AstonJ
Good luck with that 
AstonJ
Yup! It’s also one of the reasons I still love TextMate - it only ever wants to connect when you are doing something that requires a connection (which I very rare with TextMate anyway).
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