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That looks very cool.

With the "rendez-vous" URL being hosted by Microsoft (it looks that way in the video), does it mean your source code is sent to Microsoft, or does the server-side simply act as a relay to facilitate communication between 2 endpoints without needing to be exposed to the code?

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It may be sent to microsoft if a direct connection cannot be established between the liveshare clients (due to firewall/nat issues). In that case microsoft's servers act as a relay for both clients and therefore your code would be sent to microsoft owned servers. This relay feature can be disabled. More information available here. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/liveshare/refe...

Indeed, according to the page you linked:

> Note that Live Share's cloud relay does not persist any traffic routed through it and does not "snoop" the traffic in any way.

So it sounds like it's your traditional NAT traversal with TURN/STUN, and their promise that they don't snoop if the end up relaying.

Very cool!

Where on that page does it say how to disable the relay feature?