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I've only tried Zed like a year ago, and personally have no need for an editor I cannot run in the terminal, but couldn't you just like turn off those features and/or not use those features?

As mentioned, I don't know how much in the way they get, if you don't use them, do they get in the way or something of "normal" usage?

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It's mostly a trust thing. You're asking why I don't trust that if I "turn it off" it will be off. So the answer to that is: every US company I've ever dealt with (eventually, in some cases). I don't want to trust you. I don't want you to trust me. I want to provide you with pure transparency, and I want you to provide me with that. And, if they did that, I would trust them more. Maybe even enough to install something that they swear turns off, if I tell it to (and won't ever, even accidentally, even across sessions/devices/locations/etc). But without that transparency, I don't trust them any more than I trust facebook or google, and I consider any prompting to "just trust them, bro" as simp shit. you trust them. I'm good.

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