[digdigdag]

Before anyone jumps on a new text editor band wagon, just a note on the license they have you agree to in using it:

"Customer Data consisting of User content created while using the Solution is classified as "User Content". User Content is transmitted from Your environment only if You collaborate with other Zed users by electing to share a project in the Editor.

[...]Zed's access to such User Content is limited to debugging and making improvements to the Solution."

No commentary from me. Come to your own conclusions.

[__jonas]

I would like some commentary from you, sounds very reasonable to me, I don't understand what the problem is.

Of course if you choose to share your project with others for collaboration, the content of that project is transmitted from your machine, what else would you expect? How would it work otherwise?

[makeitdouble]

I didn't get it at first, but as I read it the last "Zed" is not the editor but the company.

Basically the Zed company also gets access to the code you're sharing with other users.

[toastercat]

It'd be more appealing if user content was e2e encrypted during sessions.

[shp0ngle]

This actually looks very reasonable...?

[WuxiFingerHold]

Not at all. Very reasonable would be if they asked you:

- Only if you explicitly consent we will store your code or parts of your code on our servers.

- Only if you explicitly consent we will read your code for improving our product.

- Otherwise your code will never be stored on our servers. Data may reside in memory during sessions, but will never be stored.

The issue is that you when using Zed you implicitly agree that they store and use your code the moment you use the flagship feature of the editor.

It's their product, they can do whatever they want. But this behavior is a big red flag for me.

[mixmastamyk]

It’s not unreasonable.

The thing is every time you load company proprietary code and/or sensitive data you better make sure you don’t hit the share button as well.

Not the end of the world but also something we didn’t have to think about until recently. That pushing a button (other than delete) could potentially get you fired.