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What you are stating is incorrect.
Each of the calls you link to sets a boolean here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/57c3953aca49f68ac...
It does not transmit what you copy, search for or when you clicked/resized/closed the window. It simply stores a true/false value saying "feature X was used". In some cases, like with find/replace, it also stores the average length of things you searched for. That is a common way for developers to get an idea if performance characteristics due to the longest common substring problem[1]
You are trying to spread misinformation here to make Microsoft look like a bad guy. There is nothing sinister going on here, it is just ordinary metric collection.
But don't take my word for it. Take for example the "we can see it log every time you resize a console window" statement. In the link it calls SetWindowSizeChanged()[2] which again calls SetUserInteractive()[3] and it just sets a boolean to true.
So there is no "log every time it resize a console window". It simply sets a variable to true, which presumably the Windows Terminal dev team use to see how many users use the console with interactive sessions.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_probl...
[2] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/57c3953aca49f68ac...
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/57c3953aca49f68ac...
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Maybe, maybe not:
1. It looks like ETW is enabled by default since Vista.
2. The code deletes the username due to "PII issues," suggesting that something is being sent back (line 295)
3. An oblique reference to a 5% sampling rate (line 284) suggests you may not be able to tell what it's sending based on network monitoring.
Hard to say. They should probably document what they collect. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/terminal/issues/139
