vscode-extension-telemetry

Firefox’s source code is open. So is Visual Studio Code. Could you please tell us what is collected that could possibly be used maliciously? You can get started here - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry and https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

I'll be explicit then. Let's take the example of Microsoft VS Code. You have "nothing to hide" from a text editor, as long as it's not uploading the content of any of your files. VS Code is open source, it's trivial to check if it does. If you think there is something that it might upload that you might not like, please let us know. Here's the extension - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry. You can check for usages here - https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode There is plenty of personal information that I never want shared with anyone, like my location history, who I speak to and so on. But what shortcuts I use, what features I use in an application, after it's been anonymized? I have "nothing to hide" there.

The package they are using “vscode-extension-telemetry” actually does use the global setting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry/blob... Third-party extensions can read that setting too so they can respect the global choice.

The telemetry usage is directly in the MIT source: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/f05063d13da8c6112ed... The telemetry extension is open source too: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry And you can unpack the source for the distributed electron bundle yourself: https://medium.com/how-to-electron/how-to-get-source-code-of...