I turn off all the telemetry in the VSCode settings. Are there switches I can’t turn off or something?

How can you know if the switches actually work?

I could check using a proxy or by inspecting the source (it’s just JavaScript) but I don’t actually care about it that much to bother and I think we would have heard something if the switches were bogus, given that VSCode telemetry is such a contentious issue. That’s why I asked if there was other telemetry without a switch, because Windows is like that.

You're stretching what "paid with" means (just like with the meaning of "open core"). I'll step out of this conversation now.

Feel free to ignore me. But let me explain:

VSCode does not work at all for me without the "Remote SSH" extension. And the "Remote SSH" extension is proprietary and DRM-ed to be not work with the open source code.

I don't see how I'm stretching what "open core" means. This is just like any other open core stuff.

"Paid for" part, yeah you are right. I thought the orange site all agree I paid for Gmail, just not with money, but turns out I'm wrong.