Support metered connections

[kostrse]

VS Code, as any Windows application, should respect system-wide settings of metered connections. It's bad experience for people who are on the go and connected via mobile internet.

Proposed behavior:

1. VS Code doesn't attempt to update itself or extensions when on metered connection.
2. When user manually clicks to update, it should display popup dialog with confirmation to start update.
3. (optionally) Expose API to extensions.

Related: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/75195 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/8540

[aaronadamsCA]

Tagging everyone who previously asked for this feature, so they can lend their 👍 to the issue description above.

8540: @Weetbix @osnoser1 @jens1o @SetTrend @muhd-ali @doom777 @Vanilagy

47685: @SetTrend

60741: @Jawz84

62615: @fatherjack

75195: @AlexJPawlak @mittalyashu

84424: @Tracy-P

[silverqx]

This currently happened to me, after I opened vscode it took over 300MB on the metered connection from a 1GB data program.

[arshad115]

We need this!

Vs Code recently downloaded updates while I was on Roaming data and cost me a lot!

[w5l]

Come on, it's been years and it's such a basic feature!

[einarpersson]

Soon two year anniversary since this moved to Backlog. Even though I am on a generous plan, I would very much like VSCode to respect the OS settings.

[saifjarboui]

Hi there, same issue here and thought that VS Code already have that due to its synergy with windows. Seems I was mistaken.

[Tsunami014]

This needs to change. I agree.

[codad5]

Now half way through 2024 and still nothing