[runn1ng]

and spamming users with ads left and right, Google style, too

[sundvor]

Hmm. In Chromium Edge, my new default browser, AFAIK the UO plugin will still work perfectly unlike in Chrome, meaning I rarely if ever see any ads.

The closest thing to an ad in VSCode or for that matter Terminal would be .. I guess hints at ease of Azure cloud services? Never found it intrusive myself, and I do AWS.

[twobat]

It's hard to understand your message, but... ads in VSCode? Is that a thing now?

[yusi-san]

You can use VSCodium, it's a fork of VSCode without Microsoft's telemetry.