do not ping any host just because I opened the editor

[nyxnor]

Describe the bug
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I don't want vercel and vsx to know I just opened my editor. I can see this connections by just opening VSCodium.

StreamId StreamPurpose StreamTarget CircuitId CircuitPurpose
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3025 DNS_REQUEST vscodium.now.sh-(76.76.21.164:0) 4591  GENERAL
3027 DNS_REQUEST vscodium.vercel.app-(76.76.21.123:0) 4591  GENERAL
3029 DNS_REQUEST open-vsx.org-(198.41.30.195:0) 4591  GENERAL
3030 USER open-vsx.org-(198.41.30.195:443) 4590  GENERAL

This is not like I have request a marketplace application, this simply happens by just opening the editor.

Please confirm that this problem is VSCodium-specific

• This bug doesn't happen if I use Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. It only happens in VSCodium.
  Not sure, I don't use VSCode, and pinging MS would be worse.

Please confirm that the issue/resolution isn't already documented

• I checked the Docs page and my issue is not mentioned there.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Open the editor. Watch DNS requests.

Expected behavior
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Disable this. It may not be telemetry or just checking if it is up to date, but I don't want these connections to happen.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: [e.g. Mac OS, Ubuntu 20.04, etc]
• Architecture [e.g. x64, ia32, arm64]
• Version [e.g. 1.33.0]

Debian
amd64, x86_64
VSCodium 1.64.2

Additional context
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[daiyam]

To deactivate the update checkup, you will need to deactivate it with "update.mode": "none" in your settings.

[nyxnor]

Thanks, it is not pinging vercel anymore.

4173 DNS_REQUEST open-vsx.org-(198.41.30.195:0) 5071  GENERAL
4174 USER open-vsx.org-(198.41.30.195:443) 5073  GENERAL

I don't have any extensions currently.

Unchecked, set to false and to none everything available with @tag:usesOnlineServices

[sydbarrett74]

How about setting 'update.mode' to 'none' by default in release versions?

[bigbenzh]

I don't have any extensions currently.

I think this is due to the design of built-in marketplace function in vscode, and there is no easy way to disable the ping to the marketplace server (which is open-vsx.org in vscodium) without breaking the whole marketplace function.

(probably) related: #623 #732

if you don't want the plugin update and prefer install plugins manually, you can modify product.json and replace open-vsx.org to 127.0.0.1 or an invalid domain

[nyxnor]

Thanks.
It is related to that issue and I endorse the idea of disabling network of the IDE, but I do not endorse the rudeness of the author of that post.
As that issue is waiting for a pull request, will close this one.