Telemetry data

[gmemstr]

I've noticed that the server makes a lot of requests to v1.telemetry.coder.com. I'm curious what sort of data is being collected. It appears to be added here: https://github.com/cdr/code-server/blob/06b387fe98f93dceab989b4bdf1396c41035cb2a/ci/dev/vscode.patch#L2086 Is this simply redirecting data that Microsoft already collects in VSCode? I have Telemetry turned off in the settings, although I recognize that doesn't fully turn it off for VSCode either (at least, last I checked).

I'm flagging this as a bug, because I have telemetry turned off and the application should respect this setting. In the last 7 days my DNS server has blocked 40,871 requests to v1.telemetry.coder.com.

(edit) It occours to me that I don't have --disable-telemetry passed, but have disbled it in the settings instead. Curious if these are expected to behave the same.

• Web Browser: Firefox
• Local OS: Windows 10
• Remote OS: Arch Linux
• Remote Architecture: x64
• code-server --version:

> ./code-server --version
3.4.0 69ad52907e8ea109345831d29da5425cb2a55047

[code-asher]

Yup it's the exact same data, we just fill in the telemetry endpoint with our own.

--disable-telemetry will create a telemetry handler that drops everything given to it so it should always work (it won't affect extension telemetry though since they use their own code for sending telemetry).

It looks like for some reason the configuration isn't being read or isn't being read properly. Even if the setting is false, it still reports it as being true. I don't see anything obviously wrong so we'll have to dig a bit.

[code-asher]

Thanks for reporting this! Broken configuration is a pretty big deal. I'll need to pay attention to how VS Code registers services when updating in the future so I don't miss changes in how things are initialized like this again.