[riquito]

> > It’s important to note that, if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics. We use this information to improve our products.

> Well, it's basically true for MS-branded VSCode too. I now use VSCodium.

How's that "basically true"? That's false. You can opt out. In fact there's very good documentation around that

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

[hyper57]

According to Microsoft's own license terms for VS Code, you can't opt out of all telemetry; see Section 2a: https://code.visualstudio.com/license

> You may opt-out of many of these scenarios, but not all, as described in the product documentation located at https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di....

Also, each extension (including Microsoft's) may collect its own telemetry. The blog post https://www.roboleary.net/tools/2022/04/20/vscode-telemetry has more details.

Personally, I think it's a shame that JetBrains get such flack for collecting telemetry in their free products when Microsoft do the same in VS Code with hardly anyone voicing the same level of criticism for it.

[voidspark]

> a shame that JetBrains get such flack for collecting telemetry in their free products

Probably 99.99% of developers don’t care.

The ones who complain about it online are a tiny vocal minority.