Powershell (re)build with removed telemetry?

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I am looking for powershell release/distribution that has the telemetry removed. Is anyone aware of something like this?
The same way as VSCodium vs VSCode. (VSCodium is libre-friendly rebuild of VSCode - with the invigilation pieces removed)

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Did you try using a search engine like google/duckduckgo? Nothing shows up there, which would answer your question perhaps?

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Yes, I did try. And I found nothing…
I was hoping that I am not the only one looking for this.

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Probably a better question to ask the powershell community. I doubt very many people here use it with it being a Microsoft product.

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If I see this correctly there is none, but all you need to do to disable the telemetry is setting the POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT variable to true

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You can also do that in VS Code as well, and SQL Server on Linux :slight_smile:

You can also add to /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.2	vortex.data.microsoft.com tempuri.org

Although some people prefer not having that option exist altogether due to lack of trust in MS.

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