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		vlunkr on May 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Codespaces No the JetBrains IDE is the product. This phrase generally refers to things like Facebook or Google. They offer tons of free services in order to gather data about you and sell it to advertisers.

swagonomixxx on May 6, 2020 [–]

Thanks. VS Code is actually no saint in this regard. MS collects metrics through VS Code's "telemetry" option (I think toggle-able to off, not sure) and this data has no doubt been used to improve VS Code and help MS build better product offerings and hence more rake in more revenue.

paulcarroty on May 7, 2020 | [–]

https://vscodium.com/

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