[robalni]

My point is that it's not just what information is being taken that matters. Even if you don't take anything it's still wrong to do things inside someone's computer or home without permission. Maybe VS Code asks for permission properly and gives the user sufficient control and has good defaults, I don't know, but it's difficult to do that properly because people don't understand computers as well as they understand the rest of life.

[ulisesrmzroche]

This (Vscode) is a product for developers, so are you saying that if you use VScode you don’t understand computers?

That’s very arrogant of you

[robalni]

By "computers" I really meant "the complexity in the software that computers run". Computers do very complex things and most of those things can't be directly seen. So if you want to tell someone about what some software is doing, it's not always easy.