Microsoft repackages apps with a telemetry .NET wrapper

[madires]

https://twitter.com/WithinRafael/status/1781743054296432772:

The Microsoft Store team has started quietly wrapping apps, like EarTrumpet, with some malware-looking .NET executable wrapper (with my app's name of course) chock full of telemetry and other code. They also target netfx 4.7.2 when my app targets netfx 4.6.2, wtf?

[RoGeorge]

Similar they do with the VScode, the rumor is.  They only add the telemetry in the binaries.

    When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.

    When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license

Source:  https://vscodium.com/#why-does-this-exist

[SiliconWizard]

Nice.

[Perkele]

Similar they do with the VScode, the rumor is.  They only add the telemetry in the binaries.

    When we [Microsoft] build Visual Studio Code, we do exactly this. We clone the vscode repository, we lay down a customized product.json that has Microsoft specific functionality (telemetry, gallery, logo, etc.), and then produce a build that we release under our license.

    When you clone and build from the vscode repo, none of these endpoints are configured in the default product.json. Therefore, you generate a “clean” build, without the Microsoft customizations, which is by default licensed under the MIT license

Source:  https://vscodium.com/#why-does-this-exist

Just a heads-up warning - add-ons in VSCodium can't be installed from directly Store, you need to download and install them manually.