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by m463 1170 days ago
Meaning that they don't collect telemetry, or that they DO collect telemetry and it's not mentioned?
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Opt-in telemetry, as well as unspecified telemetry while phoning home for license checks. I gather from memory that IDEs based on the IntelliJ platform scour the local network in search for other local network-connected machines running instances of their IDEs - e.g. in order to detect forbidden duplication of licenses. It is not apparently clear what details are(n't) transmitted back to the mothership.

This example requires a finer-grained analysis than the broadly chosen "opt-in" and "opt-out" categories to describe telemetry collection, and I wish for this information initiative to improve in clarity and thoroughness (e.g. does VSCode also scour the local network?).

Addendum: Thanks for asking for clarification. The grandparent comment could've been ambiguous in intent.

I did browse VS Code’s source code and I can’t recall seeing anything other than straightforward, albeit verbose, telemetry. When I find the time, I’ll reiterate on clarity! I’ll try to be more thorough, too, if time lets me. I want to verify everything before it goes online, which is time-consuming — an already scarce resource.
I’ll add anything worth adding, regardless if it has telemetry or not. The tools on the site just the ones I tested!