Impossible to turn off chatgpt.com and openai.com connections

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 18, 2026 by alippai Closed Feb 19, 2026

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

0.4.76

What subscription do you have?

API

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

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What issue are you seeing?

I see the codex app server starting with the --analytics-default-enabled flag and if I'm correct these domains are accessed:

ab.chatgpt.com
chat.openai.com

This happens regardless of:

[analytics]
enabled = false

Being set in the ~/codex/config.toml.

I didn't find any VS Code related settings to turn this off.
The BASE_URL is set and a different model provider is used, so any direct connection to chatgpt.com or openai.com is not expected.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Start the VS Code extension and check what it connects to.

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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