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Re:Visual Studio Code for Go by frik on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:11PM (#11218670)
Has VS Code still the phone home feature, that can't be turned off? (no it's not okay to sniff on my data or usage, on my computer!)
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Re:Visual Studio Code for Go by calebegg on Thursday March 03, 2016 @02:39PM (#11219409)
It can be turned off now:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

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Re:Visual Studio Code for Go by integraton on Thursday March 03, 2016 @04:53PM (#11220347)
Only by manually editing internal program files using the command line. Also,

> You will need to apply these changes after every update to disable collection of usage data. These changes do not survive product updates.

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Re:Visual Studio Code for Go by jongalloway2 on Monday March 07, 2016 @04:43PM (#11241956)
The Feb 2016 release has a new setting that (I believe) persists between updates:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/3182

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-di...

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Re:Visual Studio Code for Go by carussell on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:38PM (#11218869)
If you build from source, osscode will never connect to those endpoints.

Alternatively, you can just edit them out of the product.json from the release build that you download from MS.

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