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On the other hand, why are so many so quick to jump on the distrusting side? For example, people on here lost their minds with the Warp terminal having telemetry, but none of it includes any of the terminal input or output, which makes it harmless. But telemetry apparently equals some horrific deed. These exact same software developers likely lace the hell out of their apps and systems with telemetry, a mention of which that is probably buried in some user agreement somewhere.

Microsoft publishes a detailed article on what Visual Studio Code telemetry is, how to disable it, and even how to view the telemetry events going out.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/telemetry

I'm not really sure jumping through hoops and developing and maintaining a crippled open-source app is the sane, default response here. It's likely a waste of time and a very, very, very small percentage of Visual Studio Code users will use it.