[shaan7]

I am really curious but do not have the time to check this myself: is the vscode telemetry part of the open core bit? The reason I ask this is because I agree with your points and I usually allow telemetry for FOSS programs (for example [1]).

If the telemetry code is open and people can verify that there isn't any identifiable data that is being collected, I don't see any issue with leaving it on in vscode too.

[1] https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/what-we-can-learn-fro...

[elashri]

Some of the telemetry is not added until when later when VSCode get bundled with it and some proprietary stuff and signed for distribution. This is where VSCodium do the stuff. they take the same source code, apply some patches and build the program with open-vsx open source marketplace and they call it a day.

All of this actually happens and piped using github action found on the repository. You can have a look there.

[btdmaster]

Is the telemetry data in KDE publicly available?