The new and updated data-sharing options will be released in the next couple of weeks with the upcoming 2025.2.4 update of JetBrains IDEs. Non-commercial users will get a notification about the updates in the terms of use. For holders of other types of licenses, if you never provided consent, nothing will change.
It sounds like they’re contradicting themselves in the mail they sent:
(emphasis not mine)
The word explicit doesn’t IMO cover anything but informed opt-in, not opt-out of any kind.
It looks like it’s opt-in for everyone except those who get Ultimate for free (students, open-source maintainers, etc). Paid Ultimate is opt-in, free Ultimate is opt-out, and the free Community editions are opt-in with a for now attached.
So that means half their training data is going to be on first year CS students
Oh no, that sound rather chaotic…
Ugh…. And I was thinking about giving Rider a try too.
Neovim it is!
Edit - after reading some more… it looks like you can easily opt out? Opt in would be better, of course.
Neovim is a great choice anyway.