https://denshub.com/en/tags/opensource/Recent content in Opensource on Den's Hub: Technology Solutions, Guides and Best PracticesHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:24:00 +0100https://denshub.com/en/vscodium-open-source-vscode/Tue, 16 Feb 2021 14:33:21 +0100https://denshub.com/en/vscodium-open-source-vscode/<figure > <audio controls class="player" preload="metadata"> <source src="https://denshub.com/audio/2025/vscodium-the-privacy-friendly-vs-code.mp3" type="audio/mp3"> </audio> <figcaption>Listen article as podcast episode</figcaption> </figure> <p>Every time you launch VS Code, Microsoft collects telemetry unless you&rsquo;ve manually disabled it. Even then, you&rsquo;re trusting a proprietary binary that differs from the open-source code it&rsquo;s built from. VSCodium eliminates this uncertainty. Built from the same MIT-licensed source without Microsoft&rsquo;s tracking infrastructure, it&rsquo;s VS Code as the source code intended, not as Microsoft packaged it. The trade-off is losing access to a handful of proprietary extensions. For many developers, that&rsquo;s worth it.</p>