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One of the nice things about open-source is that if you don't agree with a change you can revert it.

In this case name mangling might be disabled by removing one line https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/pull/166126/files#diff-e.... Or if not it's still trivial to remove everything added by this commit.

In fact, there's already an actively-maintained fork of VSCode which removes the telemetry (VSCodium), they could easily remove the name mangling as well.

telemetry (VSCodium), they could easily remove the name mangling as well.

They already did.

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