Surely I am safe running VSCode on my Linux machine. No chance it would upload a bunch of personal telemetry without my say so.
replyUse VSCodium. It's the FLOSS branch with Microsoft tracking shit removed.
replyYou still want the virtual mailing address for other reasons honestly. Even if your os isn't tracking you or leaking things giving your real address to any business could lead to it being leaked because no one cares about security, etc. If that's in your threat model you should be using a good proxy mailer
replyPerhaps so. But the problem at hand here is that MS Windows has so lost the plot of being an OS for users, to ABUSING users.
replyAll these fixes and repairs ignore the fact that abusing people pays. Surveillance capitalism pays, and provides a revenue stream for Microsoft to further exploit.
The only way to win is not to play.