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by perlclutcher 856 days ago
The internet's reaction to this has been so silly.

Jetbrains has for a long time included a set of optional plugins that are disabled by default and make HTTP calls to Jetbrains servers:

- Spaces

- Code With Me

- Shared Indexes

- their plugin authoring plugin

- (probably more I'm forgetting)

Now they released plugin #5+, that is also disabled by default, and also requires you to take a series of several explicit steps before you can enable it and use it, but this time everyone loses their minds? I feel bad for the engineers there.