Impossible to turn off chatgpt.com and openai.com connections
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 18, 2026 by alippai Closed Feb 19, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (jif-oai, contributor)
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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?
_No response_
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.comThis happens regardless of:
[analytics]
enabled = falseBeing 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?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
2 Comments
The
--analytics-default-enableddoes not override your config that disable analytics.chat.openai.comis used for rate limits among other thingsab.chatgpt.comis indeed Statsig but we use it for feature gating and dynamic configuration. No metrics are sent there if you disabled analytics in your configThese domains are often firewalled and if the extension cannot be configured for no internet usage, the VSCode extension gets banned by policy - even if OpenAI is consumed via a local proxy to the OAI API