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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by y4mi on Thursday March 23, 2017 @12:27PM (#13941253)
tracking or ad scripts by facebook or google are in neither atom nor VSCode.

both projects are open source if you care to verify

Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by fs111 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @01:44PM (#13942112)
Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by y4mi on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:23PM (#13950583)
you're being asked while installing f you're fine with anonymized usage information being send to MS for further development of the software.

its a simple checkpoint and pretty much every actively developing project does this nowadays.