Disable telemetry/tracking

[ghuntley]

overview

The Microsoft distribution of the .NET platform contains telemetry/tracking within the SDK and within the Visual Studio Code tooling.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry

related issues

• Clarification On Data Collection dotnet/vscode-csharp#4069
• Rust/Golang has a better 1st class experience in VSCode than C# #20

additional material

• https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/telemetry

discussions

There are lots of limits as to what data can be collected about the actual build as even command line parameters can give away information or secrets or PII - tannergooding

[anaisbetts]

People are annoyed by telemetry because they get nothing in return directly - instead of disabling it, make it a site that is itself open. People would be far more willing to leave it enabled if they could actually see the data that it's collecting (and make decisions based on it!)

[anaisbetts]

Aha! I have been Informed that (at least some set of) this data is public already, v cool - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/telemetry