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Even when running a fully local model through Ollama, the Qwen-Code harness can still send telemetry and metadata to Alibaba/Aliyun servers unless explicitly disabled.
A code audit of Qwen-Code found that even with a fully local Ollama-served model, the harness still phones home usage telemetry and metadata to Alibaba/Aliyun endpoints unless disabled via settings. ✦ AI generated
Sebastian Raschka · Ahead of AI · 2026-06-27 · original ↗
Even with local Ollama, Qwen Code can send usage telemetry and metadata to Alibaba/Aliyun endpoints unless usage statistics and telemetry are disabled (more on that below). This is riskier than a local-only setup because model prompts may stay local, but session IDs, tool metadata, model info, and local base URL metadata can still leave the machine.
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- ·Can send telemetry to Alibaba/Aliyun endpoints
- ·Happens even with fully local Ollama model
- ·Occurs unless telemetry explicitly disabled
- ·Model prompts may stay local
- ·Session IDs and tool metadata still sent
- ·Model info and local base URL metadata leak
- ·Undermines assumed privacy of local-only setup
- ·Metadata leakage despite no cloud inference
- ·Must disable usage statistics/telemetry to stop
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