[eckza]

Some of us want to write code without shipping a bunch of usage data / telemetry / whatever back up to the Mothership.

It's the principle of the thing; and anything that shaves off a few clock cycles is fine by me.

[wvenable]

Microsoft is heavy into data-backed development right now. They're making decisions about were to put resources, and even what buttons to keep in toolbars, based on how many users are clicking them.

This seems to have lead to development of products and features that get a lot of excitement here on HN so maybe it's not all bad.

[jakear]

VS Code already provides mechanisms to disable all background network activity.

[falcolas]

Defaults matter. They matter even more given Microsoft's demonstrated history of quietly adding new telemetry and metrics which are enabled.

I have no skin in this particular game, but I'm glad to see the work being done.

[btinker]

Are you sure? This is what MS says about it:

Data Collection. The software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft. Microsoft may use this information to provide services and improve our products and services. You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation.

https://code.visualstudio.com/license

[jakear]

You may need to wait for next week’s release. But it is made easy in the current insiders.