[Silhouette]

Obviously if you care about privacy you should keep telemetry off, but to be honest, if you don’t trust Microsoft to respect common decency about private code, you just shouldn’t use a tool they built in the first place.

Isn't that the point of today's discussion: you can use the privacy-respecting alternative instead?

[toyg]

It's still effectively developed by MS, so it might be doing something funky outside of "regular" telemetry and you wouldn't know unless you fully audit the entirety of the codebase.

[Silhouette]

Sure, but now we're comparing an open source product you can build yourself that might be doing something shady but where we have no evidence of that, against a product derived from the open source version that is openly adding privacy-eroding functionality, and with a corresponding privacy policy that is ambiguous at best about how far it will go.