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I've wanted to try Zed but I'm generally antsy about tools unexpectedly phoning home -- haven't had a chance to closely evaluate myself.

A few tinfoil-hat questions: I know obviously it needs to phone someone to use functionality like remote dev or certain integrations, but outside of those situations, does it otherwise perform any kind of telemetry by default? Are there situations where it could ship off tokens in files I'm editing to some remote server where one wouldn't be expecting it? Also, I know it's open source, but is it meaningfully open source in the sense that the prebuilt binaries available for download in the obvious places aren't some reskinned proprietary version like is the case with VSCode?

These are meant in good faith -- genuinely interested and curious



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