[giamma]

How about switching from VS Code to VS Codium? Same experience without the microsoft telemetry. I suppose Copilot won't be included due to licensing constraints.

[kace91]

How does the extension model work with MS? I did a similar move to chromium and eventually had to move to firefox when they pulled the plug on ad blockers.

[duskdozer]

There's https://open-vsx.org/. I've seen in the repo people talk about tweaking workarounds to use the proprietary MS stuff.