# How to stop the notification of julia extension of vscode about "help to improve ..." without accepting it

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, vscode\
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671 "2020-02-15T09:02:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![AmirHosein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/amirhosein/32/11856_2.png) [@AmirHosein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AmirHosein)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 9:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671/1 "2020-02-15T09:02:59Z")

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If you are using Julia on VS Code, then you are aware of the automatic notification of the Julia extension which asks you the following;

> To help improve the julia extension, you can anonymously send usage statistics to the team.

And there is only one option to choose from “_Yes, I want to help improve the julia extension_”. Or you can just close the notification. However if you don’t accept it, the next time you open your VS Code to do julia coding, you will get this notification again. I know they have a good intention, but I don’t feel happy to see it every time, and no matter how many time it repeat showing itself, I will not choose it. Is there anyone who knows how to disable this notification? I just did a quick search here and in Google and didn’t see any post about it. If it is a repeated post, please let me know.

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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 11:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671/2 "2020-02-15T11:20:31Z")

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In the extensions settings there is “Enable Telemetry”. You can set it to true or false:

```julia
{
    "telemetry.enableTelemetry": true,
    "terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
    "julia.enableTelemetry": true,
    "julia.usePlotPane": false
}

```

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 3:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671/3 "2020-02-15T15:57:06Z")

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That is also described in the privacy policy [Privacy Policy · julia-vscode/julia-vscode Wiki · GitHub](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/wiki/Privacy-Policy) that I believe is linked to from the notification.

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**Author:** ![AmirHosein](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/amirhosein/32/11856_2.png) [@AmirHosein](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/AmirHosein)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671/4 "2020-02-15T16:18:18Z")

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@davidanthoff You’re right. I only read half of the page and didn’t look at the second half. Thanks anyway. So these two options have three values: _true_, _null_ and _false_.

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**Author:** ![davidanthoff](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/davidanthoff/32/223493_2.png) [@davidanthoff](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/davidanthoff)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-stop-the-notification-of-julia-extension-of-vscode-about-help-to-improve-without-accepting-it/34671/5 "2020-02-15T17:13:37Z")

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Yes, exactly. `null` is the default and will show the nag.