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Re: Fix Windows 10

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Post by UK-AL »

maaaats wrote: post #18

> 7. To disable telemetry (...) Why should I disable that? What does it do? My understanding is that it's only statistics on data usage, which I find useful?

Nearly all of the windows privacy issues come from useful features.

If cortana wants to automatically recommend appointments from emails? Guess what? She has to read your emails.

If you want to be blocked from downloading malware? Guess what? You have to check with a central db first.

etc

Apple, Google devices etc have had this stuff on for ages.

Re: Fix Windows 10

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Post by norea-armozel »

leonatan wrote: post #14
venomsnake wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to avoid. Also windows 10 is excellent besides the privacy stuff.

Yes besides your privacy, it's "great". Buy Solaitaire for 10$ a month?

When did Solitaire become a vital component to using an operating system?

Re: Fix Windows 10

#23

Post by tokenizerrr »

muraiki wrote: post #4

Unfortunately, the ad under "Does this banner show ads based on your interests? If yes, you have been tracked" is a link to what I can only imagine is malware, given that it's an "Update Drivers Now" ad. As such, this site isn't really appropriate to send to the average non-technical user, as given my experience from working at an IT help desk years ago, people will end up clicking that ad and installing the malware.…

That's Google Ads. So I guess most of the internet isn't really appropriate to send to the average non-technical user?

Re: Fix Windows 10

#24

Post by norea-armozel »

UK-AL wrote: post #21
maaaats wrote: post #18

> 7. To disable telemetry (...) Why should I disable that? What does it do? My understanding is that it's only statistics on data usage, which I find useful?

Nearly all of the windows privacy issues come from useful features. If cortana wants to automatically recommend appointments from emails? Guess what? She has to read your emails. If you want to be blocked from downloading malware? Guess what? You have to check with a central db first. etc Apple, Google devices etc have had this stuff on for ages.

It doesn't work if you use a third party email app like Postbox (for now). If you use Windows Mail then it works.

Re: Fix Windows 10

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Post by jonathonf »

thescrewdriver wrote: post #9
gecko wrote: post #3

I get where some of this is coming from, but I'm not sure that "fixing" Windows by disabling automatic security updates is actually a good idea.

The guide shows how to disable sending updates from your computer to other computers on your LAN or on the Internet. It doesn't suggest disabling updates anywhere...

I don't understand why you would want to disable LAN distribution of Windows 10 updates to your other Windows 10 machines. It seems like a great way of avoiding multiple downloads of the same thing, and I'd love something similar for Linux (aptorrent or something; manual rsync of /var/cache/apt/archives isn't quite the same, neither is apt-mirror).

Disabling uploads to other external machines does make sense to me, though.

Re: Fix Windows 10

#26

Post by thescrewdriver »

karn09 wrote: post #7

I wish the steps were this straightforward for my android phone.

The ironic part is that people have just become accustomed to (or ignorant of) the way data is gathered from your average Android phone. Everyone is upset about Win10, but little attention is given to Android and the associated ecosystem of apps.

Re: Fix Windows 10

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Post by norea-armozel »

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #15

Shutting off smartscreen is short sighted and wrong. Its no different than the lists Chrome and FF use to block malicious sites. These lists are shared via a shared security initiative between the major browser makers. Disabling this is a good way to make sure you get cryptolocker. Shutting off cloud-based protection in Defender is equally stupid. Now you're not getting instant and up to date virus definitions from t…

The problem I have with the current settings in Windows 10 is how they seem to lump together vital security update functionality with Cortana and other datamining features. They shouldn't be part of the same 'module' as it were. But someone at MS HQ thought it was a good idea for some odd reason. I can't see this as anything but a way to sweeten the medicine they feel we need to take. IMO, if they were up front about what each feature does and how to enable/disable it wouldn't get anything close to the pushback it's getting now.

It just seems the suits on high think they know better than the rest of us and that's a troubling attitude. What if they think that end-to-end encryption isn't a good thing and that they need to force us "naughty children" to not use it? Well there goes your enterprise customers who have to use said encryption to secure work stations from industrial espionage.

Re: Fix Windows 10

#29

Post by outworlder »

venomsnake wrote: post #12
leonatan wrote: post #2

Fix Windows 10: Say no to Microsoft and don't install it. Don't tell them this model is successful.

Hard to avoid. Also windows 10 is excellent besides the privacy stuff.

It's one of the first good windows releases since... 95? Even the terminal got a facelift.

Re: Fix Windows 10

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Post by sb057 »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #8

Not the first attempt I've seen to summarise all the fixes for the privacy leaks. But given I've seen 2-3 articles on the HN homepage so far this week that MS still sends all kinds of crap and of course has the ability to patch these workarounds - consider me sceptical! This is a game people are going to lose. If MS cared about privacy this wouldn't have happened in the first place. Just don't use Windows. Use your f…

Microsoft has had the ability to push updates without user consent since XP!

http://www.informationweek.com/microsoft-updates-windows-wit...

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