Add note about VSCodium update API to "Getting all the Telemetry Out" #540
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Not too long after switching from VS Code, I saw a software update available within VSCodium and downloaded and applied the update without thinking. Later, I was perusing Getting all the Telemetry Out, learned about the
@tag:usesOnlineServices
settings filter, tried using the filter in my own settings, and saw in the description for theupdate.mode
setting, "The updates are fetched from a Microsoft online service."That very much confused me, since I thought it meant that when I had used the internal software update function in VSCodium it had actually fetched those updates from Microsoft instead of from this repository. I remained confused until I happened upon #533, which led me to the update-api repo, which pointed me to #41 and the Auto Update Support project, and I finally understood.
So this PR is a little addition to "Getting all the Telemetry Out" that explains the update API in light of the
update.mode
setting description to hopefully prevent further confusion.Here's the new text, starting with a new subheading within the "Getting all the Telemetry Out" section: