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Even though we do not pass the telemetry build flags (and go out of our way to cripple the baked-in telemetry), Microsoft will still track usage by default. After installing VSCodium, you must manually disable telemetry in your settings file to stop it from sending tracking data to Microsoft.

The instructions here and here help with disabling telemetry.

Good first issue for a new contributor?

That makes me wonder why they didn't just go all the way? Was there "advice" from MS to not do so?

By the scare quotes around “advice” do you mean threats? Since VSCode is Free Software, what has VSCodium done that opens them to litigation from Microsoft?

Not in the legal sense but more like a "if you would like to remain on good terms with the community, we really appreciate you doing X" sort of thing.

What does that even mean?

There are no strict limits on paranoia... Maybe Satya Nadella threatened to literally murder everyone involved with VSCodium.

So what they write here [1] about the OSS version with stripped telemetry is not correct then?

[1]https://github.com/flathub/com.visualstudio.code.oss/issues/...