If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS
“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script
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#22I wonder what MS employees think when every week a new tool pops up disabling data mining in their OS.
I doubt it affects them that much, as there's always going to be powerusers. They get a lot of their telemetry from unsuspecting users / laymen buying those cheap Windows10 tablets you see everywhere now.
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#23I wonder what MS employees think when every week a new tool pops up disabling data mining in their OS.
Actually, a good part of the data collection is for having crashdumps to actually fix bugs. Not that many people write feedback.
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#24I don't consider win10 telemetry that bad. You can dial it down a lot until it's just sending crash data when thing go bad. Pretty much all OSes have this.
What I really don't like however is Microsoft pushing garbage like candy crush to my machine without my consent.
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#25If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS
Like what? OSX and Ubuntu have this too.
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#26If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS
Which one? An essentially unsupported Linux distribution? Canonical does telemetry as well. Apple has been doing this for years an yet we still don't sweat wrathful spate of headlines over it.
Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity. So you'll need to avoid those.
Browsers keep updating and the vast majority of websites collect telemetry as well. So no more internet.
But yeah, the OS app level telemetry seems like a pretty big deal and we should stress out about it.
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#27I had been a long time Windows user, at home (W10) and work(7/Server/Datacenter). Windows had been getting just more and more intrusive like a malware since the last couple years. I hope they do something to stop that. I have recently moved to Fedora and it is just awesome. Pretty much everything works like amazing. Its not a complete replacement if you are gaming, nvidia drivers are a bit painful to install but ever…
"Everything just works" so long as your expectations around "everything" are essentially set by a desktop computer experience designed in 2005.
Linux on desktops is fine (except from a physical security standpoint), but primitive in terms of UX. And it's still dependent on Mozilla or Google for its browsing experience.
And if you want a portable computer (which by the way are demonstrably more secure in the face of physical tampering) you basically relegate yourself to terrible battery life, poor display support, dicey sleep support, and the fixes for these often compromise performance.
I really wish Linux users would stop softballing their desktop vendors and kernel maintainers so much. It's just not competitive!
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#28I don't consider win10 telemetry that bad. You can dial it down a lot until it's just sending crash data when thing go bad. Pretty much all OSes have this. What I really don't like however is Microsoft pushing garbage like candy crush to my machine without my consent.
That's not true. Install and run wireshark then dial all you want, there will always be traffic every other minute or so to one of Redmond's servers from just idling.
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#29If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS
Which one? An essentially unsupported Linux distribution? Canonical does telemetry as well. Apple has been doing this for years an yet we still don't sweat wrathful spate of headlines over it. Oh and by the way, the logfiles from most package servers provide an accurate description of what you're doing with your machine and a weak concept of identity. So you'll need to avoid those. Browsers keep updating and the vast…
Windows has a standard logging infrastructure across all apps, ETW, which can also be used for telemetry.
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#30If telemetry really bothers you, I think you'd be better off with a different OS
Yeah, that's what I don't get about posts like this. You can either be indifferent with (legal) telemetry collection in which case you don't need posts like this or you are not comfortable with the idea in which case you shouldn't be using windows to begin with.
You can go through all the hops, run every script out there and Microsoft can push a new update tomorrow that will put you back on square one. So why even bother when you can't ever be really sure you achieved what you wanted and for how long.