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Disable the .NET Telemetry on a MacOS server or workstation (Works on Linux as well)
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DisableDotNetTelemetry.sh
# Put this to the users .bashrc and/or .profile
# OR
# Put it into /etc/bashrc (On linux it might be /etc/bash.bashrc) and/or /etc/profile
#
# On Linux you might want to create a seperate shell script an put this into /etc/profile.d/ <- It is recommended to do that!
which dotnet > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
export MLDOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
# Tweak the 1st run experience
export DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE=1
fi
alias dotnet > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
export DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
export MLDOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1
# Tweak the 1st run experience
export DOTNET_SKIP_FIRST_TIME_EXPERIENCE=1
fi
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I get that Microsoft wants to have some telemetry for .NET! And this is nothing bad, but I don't want to send any telemetry data from production servers or workstations with any critical workloads.

I have it enabled on my development systems! I'm not paranoid ;-)

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