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Discussion on: Liveshare for VS Code is Here!

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Peter Benjamin (they/them)

I think this is a cool feature, but I'd be cautious about using this feature for a few reasons:

  1. Not sure what the Terms of Service around this is.
  2. Data privacy concerns due to data being transmitted from one user to the other through *.vsrtc.visualstudio.com.

A raucous exploded when it was discovered that Kite startup hired THE Atom Minimap developer, acquired a Python autocomplete open-source library, and enabled "telemetry collection" in order to offer Atom/Sublime developers smarter, cloud-based auto-completion based on data collected from other editors that have the same plugins installed. Full details here