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Re:SQL Operations Studio by userbinator on Friday November 17, 2017 @06:38AM (#15721160)
In case you're wondering, or just want to confirm the reason for the presence of a "privacy statement" --- yes, it does phone home:

https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/tree/master/src/vs...

At least the source is available, so it should be relatively easy to remove, but as the saying goes, "look before you leap"...

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Re:SQL Operations Studio by mirimir on Friday November 17, 2017 @10:40AM (#15722816)
Microsoft spying is such a trope. So why do they just keep piling it deeper? Do they think that their users are stupid?
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Re:SQL Operations Studio by icc97 on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:42AM (#15722284)
Looks like it's opt-in [0]

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/sqlopsstudio/blob/6e05dd7fa13d2...

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Re:SQL Operations Studio by ConfucianNardin on Friday November 17, 2017 @11:26AM (#15723366)
That looks like opt-out (it's named "telemetry.enableTelemetry" and has "'default': true").
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Re:SQL Operations Studio by rexpan on Monday November 20, 2017 @03:36AM (#15738627)
Set

"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false

In Preference > Settings

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