PowerShell Telemetry

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There was a recent discussion on the PowerShell subreddit (https://redd.it/4yolyy) in which someone found Telemetry methods on the PowerShell GitHub (PowerShell/PSTelemetryMethods.cs at master · PowerShell/PowerShell · GitHub).

By quickly scanning through some of the comments on the GitHub page, it looks like the following things are being sent:
• "Report Get-Help requests, how many results are returned, and how long it took.”
• “Report when Get-Command fails to find something.”
• “Report that a module was loaded, but only do so for modules that might be authored by Microsoft.”
• “Report that a new local session (runspace) is created”
• “Report that a new remote session (runspace) is created”
• “Report some telemetry about the scripts that are run”

Is there a way or are there plans to opt-out of any of this Telemetry? I understand this information could be quite useful to further the development of PowerShell but it would be nice to have some sort of control of what is being sent.

Thanks

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Please bear in mind that the /PowerShell repo on GitHub is owned by Microsoft. PowerShell.org, on the other hand, is a community nonprofit effort - we aren’t owned by Microsoft, and can’t comment on Microsoft’s properties or intentions.

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(I’d suggest opening an issue or discussion directly in PowerShell’s UserVoice, or on the GitHub repo)

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Thanks for the quick reply. I will look into starting a discussion on either of those two places.