Windows is Spyware!

[kilésengati]

Even with spyware removed:

https://www.techspot.com/news/97535-windows-11-spyware-machine-out-users-control.html

Friendly reminder that Windows is still spyware, even collecting data when debloated. Its newest version, Windows 11 being the greatest offender.

But just sticking to Windows 10 won't keep your data safe. Microsoft started embracing data-mining in the late Windows 7 life-cycle.

If you want to use an up-to-date operating system that puts you in control of your machine, Windows certainly isn't a good option.

Blue pill or red pill. Your choice.

[Rio]

It was like "actually linux is a kernel"

or something I've long forgotten.

[Valfossa]

iwnn eredeti hozzászólása:

Chrisader eredeti hozzászólása:

You can say that with most communities, not everyone is bad and is not really fair to single out everyone as toxic.

true but linux users are particularly annoying

Not to be a broken record, but you can say that with most communities.

The Dark Souls community is one of more noticeable communities for what could be annoying to many.

Telling someone to git gud because you criticise something about the game, regardless if it was warranted or not.

Or telling people you did not experienced the game properly because you did not adhered to their way of playing the game.

The list can go on, but I still would not tar most people with that brush as there are many more people that are not like this, they just enjoy the game.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

really easy test for you win users

watch a dvd of an of the wall topic not in your normal interest categories that have already been harvested by goggle or microcreep. For example: put a dvd about chess in if you have never looked up or expressed interest about chess.

then wait about 3 days and go to youtube and watch the recommended pushed vidoes and you should start to see some chess recommendation videos

if you do see these you will know that windows harvested the metadata stored in watch logs on your private hard drive, and shared or sold it to data harvesters

happened to me on a "private" locked down win 10 install

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

OP took his thread.

[Auckes]

Why not kill your connection, while using things that do not need internet? Also, why not use an advanced anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-spyware? Last but not least, why not encrypt your outgoing data?

[GlaceonChireiden]

Oh no!
Anyways, what video games have you losers been playing

[Uncle Sam]

Very old news, regardless thanks for the link & info @OP! If there's Windows 12 in the future, it might as well track all biometrical data among other stuff.

[nohuman]

Uncle Sam eredeti hozzászólása:

Very old news, regardless thanks for the link & info @OP! If there's Windows 12 in the future, it might as well track all biometrical data among other stuff.

I think the old '1 good 1 bad' tradition is dead too. It's just all flavours of bad from here on.

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

early win 7 was the last human right respecting one

[Aesthier]

Still using Win 98. If you don't believe in what a company does then your only real avenue as an end user is to simply stop purchasing/using anything from that company.

[Volfogg]

I stopped caring long ago about such stuff. The anonimity on the internet is just an illusion to me at this point.

[Acetyl]

kilésengati eredeti hozzászólása:

Pierce Dalton eredeti hozzászólása:

Imagine not being spied in 2023. You can stop using Windows, Google or whatever, but you'll be spied.

They put little spy robots in the water.

You can laugh all you want, doesn't change where youa re. Smart Dust was functional back in 2000.

[EASY PETE]

No ♥♥♥♥, people have always wanted to know each others business even since the caveman days when homosapiens first dropped off the trees.

[Hammer Of Evil]

you can stop windows from phoning home, but you can't stop all of it or it stops working.

windows has a drm built into the os, so you can't stop it from contacting microsoft servers to authenticate, otherwise the 'register your copy of windows 10' watermark shows up on your screen, then it'll shut down after 30 days or whatever.

but the other stuff? you can blot it totally out. it stops a lot of features from working, but at least you control the flow of information.

imo, if you're privacy minded, you have a pc with linux os on it, and stay away from any telemetry type software.

[Tsubame ⭐]

Unfortunately, a lot of things collect data, and send some sort of telemetry and usage.

Windows is far from being the only one. Google, Apple, etc. most tech companies do this.