VS Code - What's the deal with the telemetry?

• omnisharp-vscode

  65 2,592 9.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued Official C# support for Visual Studio Code [Moved to: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp]

  

In any case, you cannot opt-out of all scenarios according to section 3a of its license:

• vscodium

  535 23,687 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

VS Codium is a fully open-source alternative to VS Code based on the same codebase. They try to remove all telemetry, read more about that here. They can't shut all the data collection though as it is the same codebase, and extensions act independently with regard to telemetry.

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• Visual Studio Code

  2,844 158,365 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

Microsoft have added GDPR annotations to telemetry events to describe their purpose. I guess that covers Article 15(1)(a) mentioned above. It is an enumerated variable, which can contain values: "FeatureInsight", "PerformanceAndHealth", "BusinessInsight", and "SecurityAndAuditing". It is kind of vague. What does a "BusinessInsight" event mean?

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