{"id":5222,"date":"2019-04-27T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T08:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/?p=5222"},"modified":"2023-04-01T01:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T01:36:52","slug":"open-source-visual-studio-code-without-trackers-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/open-source-visual-studio-code-without-trackers-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers now available"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An open source version of Visual Studio Code that doesn&#8217;t pass\ntelemetry data back to Microsoft has been released. VSCodium aims to\noffer a more private development experience to Visual Studio\ndevelopers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"gtech-migrated-from-ad-inserter-placement-2\" style=\"text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-1683096409\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-2269864581\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/17207\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"26001\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2023\/01\/26001-768x960.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><p>What worries some developers about Visual Studio Code is that it  passes telemetry and tracking information back to Microsoft. This can be  turned off in the Visual Studio Preferences Settings menu, but some  developers in the past have objected that even when they did this, they  saw situations where the telemetry servers used by Microsoft were still  being contacted. Microsoft&#8217;s response was that this was to send the  information that telemetry was disabled, but this still annoyed  developers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Now there&#8217;s an alternative. VSCodium is a tracking-free, free and\nopen source build of Visual Studio Code. The project consists of special\n build scripts that clone Microsoft\u2019s vscode repo, run the build\ncommands, and upload the resulting binaries for you to GitHub releases.\nAs the VSCodium page on GitHub points out:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;This is not a fork. This is a repository of scripts to automatically build Microsoft&#8217;s <code>vscode<\/code> repository into freely-licensed binaries with a community-driven default configuration&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>The creators of the software say:<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>&#8220;These binaries are licensed under the MIT license. Telemetry is enabled by a build flag which we do not pass.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>The creators also say that if you want to build from source yourself,\n you can get it from Microsoft\u2019s vscode repo where there are\ninstructions on how to do so without the telemetry build flag. The\nVSCodium has been created to make it easier to get the latest version of\n MIT-licensed VSCode.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>As with the &#8216;official&#8217; Visual Studio Code, VSCodium is available for\nWindows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript,\n TypeScript and Node.js and has extensions for other languages (such as\nC++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).<\/p>\n\n\n<p>As with the &#8216;official&#8217; Visual Studio Code, VSCodium is available for  Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript,  TypeScript and Node.js and has extensions for other languages (such as  C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).<\/p>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Information<\/h4>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/vscodium.com\/\">VSCodium Website<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Credit: Kay Ewbank (i-programmer.info) \u00a0\u00a0 <\/pre>\n<div class=\"gtech-end-cont\" id=\"gtech-3414465998\"><div style=\"margin-right: auto;margin-left: auto;text-align: center;\" id=\"gtech-1722053353\"><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/linkout\/75343\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" aria-label=\"jesdphis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis.avif 1179w, https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/media\/2025\/08\/jesdphis-768x950.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1179px) 100vw, 1179px\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"  style=\"display: inline-block;\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open source version of Visual Studio Code that doesn&#8217;t pass telemetry data back to Microsoft has been released. VSCodium aims to offer a more private development experience to Visual Studio developers.&nbsp; What worries some developers about Visual Studio Code is that it passes telemetry and tracking information back to Microsoft. This can be turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1915],"tags":[555,6,851],"class_list":["post-5222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ndocs","tag-mit-licence","tag-programming","tag-visual-studio"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gtechbooster.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}