VS Code connects to education.github.com despite Telemetry being disabled

[zulaica]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes/No

Yes

Version: 1.60.1
OS: macOS 11.6

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Disable telemetry:

"telemetry.enableCrashReporter": false,
"telemetry.enableTelemetry": false,

2. Disable experiments:

"workbench.enableExperiments": false,

3. Restart VS Code

Despite the setting being disabled, the application connects to education.github.com (which itself begs more questions, but that's a whole other thing). This is (presumably) the offending code which doesn't appear to check whether the appropriate settings are enabled.

[lramos15]

Thanks for the report. I will definitely look into fixing this as we don't need to make this request, but to ease some concerns the telemetry doesn't get sent to Microsoft. We initiate the connection to education.github.com to see if you're a student or faculty using VS Code so we can better gauge how to make VS Code accessible to those in a classroom setting. However, the this._telemetryReporter.sendTelemetryEvent no-ops because it goes to check your telemetry setting and realizes it is disabled. You can find that NPM module here https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry

[TylerLeonhardt]

Thanks for this @lramos15 !

[vscode-triage-bot]

This bug has been fixed in the latest release of VS Code Insiders!

@zulaica, you can help us out by commenting /verified if things are now working as expected.

If things still don't seem right, please ensure you're on version 4fbe034 of Insiders (today's or later - you can use Help: About in the command palette to check), and leave a comment letting us know what isn't working as expected.

Happy Coding!