It's probably worth pointing out that this is Visual Studio Code, rather than Visual Studio - the audience for the former is fairly small by comparison!

Yup - this is my fundamental problem. HTTP or HTTPS isn't the issue - sending everything I open in my editor to a third party is the problem.

Thanks Tim - I had just started trying to track Sean down, so this will help! Will update the post if I hear anything back from him.

This is my thinking too. The use of HTTP is bad, but the real issue is trusting a third party with large amounts of potentially very sensitive information. Especially when the service in question was designed for people checking the spelling and grammar of their blog posts, something designed to be shared anyway.

I'll update the post, thanks!

Since you're here:

  > ... any text opened in Visual Studio Code
  > with this extension loaded would be send ...
                                        ^^^^

I suspect that should be "sent".

Thanks - fixed!