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VSCode License Confusion
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People are worried about the Visual Studio Family Privacy Policy ( https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/dn948229 ).
Here is the main thing I've figured out as to why:
> This includes information about how you use the products and services, such as the features you use, the web pages you visit, and the search terms you enter.
Reasoning: They think that VS Code is somehow adding a proxy on your system or something to collect all your web traffic.
What I think: This policy is to cover the whole of the Visual Studio family. This part of the terms applies to the full VS products that have a web browser integrated for opening links, debugging, and documentation. So this part doesn't really apply to VS Code since it doens't have a browser, but people are freaking out about it anyways because they don't understand the policy covers everything VS.
If VS Studio is somehow collecting all web traffic, then that is bad. But I highly doubt it.
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