[How] can I leave telemetry enabled, or re-enable it?

[RokeJulianLockhart]

I am interested in VSCodium, because it:

• appears to provide a more FOSS and reproducible buildchain than the official binaries do;

• provides recent .insiders versions via .flatpak, unlike upstream; and

• leaves GitHub discussions open for non-extension authors.

However, although VSCodium is described as not a fork, it appears to apply a significant patchset, whose sole purpose is to remove telemetry. I can't say that I understand how telemetry relates to FOSS code, so I've ensured that I'm correct about it being removed: the README states so.

This matters to me, because I do not want to diverge from upstream where possible, and because if I am to utilise some software without paying for it, I am quite pleased to provide diagnostic data.

[daiyam]

Doc: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/telemetry.md

Src:

• https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/undo_telemetry.sh
• https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/patches/telemetry.patch

VSCodium don't send any telemetry to anyone but some extension can include their own telemetry so you have to check them.

Some users don't want any connections (needed for update or protection against malicious extensions) like #2551 (most recent one)
I did found out that the sole connection was an update checkup which shouldn't happened in most restrictive configuration. I did make a patch to fix that.
But those operating connections aren't, for me, telemetry (since no info are transmitted expect for the os, arch or the ip...)

Maybe I should have a doc explaining each patch.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

@daiyam, thank you! If the undermentioned are all that are set by VSCodium:

vscodium/docs/telemetry.md

Lines 21 to 27 in 2fccc0e

	telemetry.telemetryLevel
	telemetry.enableCrashReporter
	telemetry.enableTelemetry
	telemetry.editStats.enabled
	workbench.enableExperiments
	workbench.settings.enableNaturalLanguageSearch
	workbench.commandPalette.experimental.enableNaturalLanguageSearch

...am I able to reset them back to their upstream defaults inside VSCodium's GUI, or, perhaps due to the .patch, would VSCodium consider those new, private preferences, to be the defaults? If the latter, are you able to advise on how I would set those preferences back to their upstream defaults?

Maybe I should have a doc explaining each patch.

Not a bad idea, although since I've no real interest in privacy, I can't imagine that I wouldn't want to undo any of the preference changes, even if I knew what they were for.

[daiyam]

Even you enables telemetry.enableTelemetry in the settings. The telemetry won't work since the reporting urls have been set to 0.0.0.0.
workbench.enableExperiments and enableNaturalLanguageSearch might rework.

[RokeJulianLockhart]

The telemetry won't work since the reporting urls have been set to 0.0.0.0.

@daiyam, thanks. This definitely seems like a fork of VS Code, then…