Live data from Hacker News

German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

ghacks.net

11–20 of 239 posts

Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

#11
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw this tool being recommended in r/windows10. I have tried it, no issues so far, though haven't tested to see if it does disable telemetry. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

The point of the report above is that you can NOT disable all telemetry, not even in the Enterprise version of Windows.

...through official means.

I don't for a second doubt you can turn it off completely. But unofficial solutions come with tons of potential issues.

Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

#16
post #3

Does anyone know if there is a tool to safely remove telemetry executables from Win10? Is it possible to remove these?

There is a tool to safely remove all Windows 10 telemetry. It's called Linux.

> It's called Linux.

It's called GNU/Linux. :-)

Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

#18

to be fair every OS can and does do telemetry, say nothing about each software application calling back home in a similar way - such feedback helps speed up improvements however linux OS makes explicit notice of this and its simple to disable

Which is why of all of those the only one that does it remotely right is Linux.

Developers and businesses in particular have grown complacent with flagrant and repeated usurpation of their user's expectations of privacy. It needs to stop.

Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

#19

to be fair every OS can and does do telemetry, say nothing about each software application calling back home in a similar way - such feedback helps speed up improvements however linux OS makes explicit notice of this and its simple to disable

Saying "Linux does telemetry" is wrong. I'm not usually one of those "Linux is just a kernel!" types, but, in this case, it's very important to distinguish between the kernel, which does no telemetry, and the whole enchilada, which might.

In short: If you can find me any on-by-default telemetry in Slackware, I'd be very interested.

Re: German federal office publishes Windows 10 telemetry analysis

#20
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point of the report above is that you can NOT disable all telemetry, not even in the Enterprise version of Windows.

...through official means. I don't for a second doubt you can turn it off completely. But unofficial solutions come with tons of potential issues.

Could just block all communication with Microsoft by the OS. Or, move to non-Windows OSes like the retail giants already have. Kroger and Walmart run Suse Enterprise Linux (relevant Uptime Funk reference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRlTISvjww
Post reply on HN