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Not necessarily. You can set the property in your ~/.atom/config.cson before the first run.

https://github.com/Couto/.dotfiles/blob/master/tag-atom/atom... in case you need an example

Example is appreciated, but not accessible. I personally use Little Snitch and stopped Atom from phoning back to Google Analytics, as I do with all the apps I use, but the comment I was replying to seemed to be shrugging off the data collection by saying "just turn it off" when the truth for most people is "it'll do it at least once but you can turn it off later"

It auto launches after installing in Windows.

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