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Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages from the Internet without user consent

In order to provide support for language servers and various tools, Zed automatically downloads binaries from the internet without user approval. I noticed that Zed automatically downloads the NodeJS binary from https://nodejs.org without asking or even informing the user about it. Right after starting it and opening a file, without doing anything else. And there’s no option to disable it. ... EDIT: Now I found that it downloads (here) even some proprietary binary from https://supermaven.com, i....

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