On: Two Months with Powershell on a Unix

[fartcannon]

How often do you need to reapply this?

[jlgaddis → fartcannon]

Set it in your environment / shell startup files (.bash_profile, for example)

  export POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT=1

and, in theory, you should be good to go (unless/until Microsoft decides to change things up).

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After logging out and logging in again, you can verify this has been set properly by simply running

  echo $POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT

in your shell (it should simply output "1").

[hashmymustache → jlgaddis]

From the Microsoft website: “The telemetry reporting can be disabled by setting the environment variable POWERSHELL_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to true, yes, or 1. This should not be done in your profile, as PowerShell reads this value from your system before executing your profile.”

[ygra → hashmymustache]

It's not supposed to go into the PowerShell $profile; .bash_profile which later starts pwsh should be fine.