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if you pay you can opt-in to share your code
if you use free version you can opt-in to share your code.
if you are entitled to using a paid version for free (e. g. students, educators) you can opt-out of sharing your code.
EDIT: I was wrong, you CAN out out in the last case, which makes the meme even more stupid
Basically guaranteeing themselves the worst code source.
Unless their goal is to catch common mistakes to improve their code analysis and quick fixes, in which case this plan is secretly brilliant.
That is incorrect. According to the page you linked elsewhere:
(Emphasis mine)
And for all other cases it's opt-in. No idea how you got from that that you cannot opt-out. It literally says the opposite.
thank you, I will correct all my comments regarding this
From the other comments, it sounds like it's opt-out for the free tier.
well, I recommend checking sources before jumping to conclusions.
https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2025/09/30/detailed-data-sharing-for-better-ai/
I didn't jump to any conclusions. It was abundantly clear that what I was writing was hearsay based on secondhand information.
Tbf they will just take from people who opted out regardless no? It's not new for companies to do that.
You generalize too much. If you think Jetbrains are likely to take peoples code even though they opted out you should substantiate that.