PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
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Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#2> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options.
No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#3> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options. No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
> No idea what data Nvidia connects but this sounds even more shady.
It gets worse - if you're on Windows and your driver was not installed by an OEM (if it didn't come with the computer, or you reinstalled the OS or something), GeForce Experience wants you to connect to the internet and sign into an Nvidia account to access some features of the graphics card, like ShadowPlay.
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#4> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options. No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
> No idea what data Nvidia connects but this sounds even more shady. It gets worse - if you're on Windows and your driver was not installed by an OEM (if it didn't come with the computer, or you reinstalled the OS or something), GeForce Experience wants you to connect to the internet and sign into an Nvidia account to access some features of the graphics card, like ShadowPlay.
But thankfully GeForce Experience experience is totally optional, you can just select not to install when you install the driver
Honestly it doesn't even have any critical feature https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/geforce-experience/
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#5> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options. No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
Huh, I wonder if this applies to people with Linux Nvidia drivers.
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No idea what data Nvidia connects but this sounds even more shady. It gets worse - if you're on Windows and your driver was not installed by an OEM (if it didn't come with the computer, or you reinstalled the OS or something), GeForce Experience wants you to connect to the internet and sign into an Nvidia account to access some features of the graphics card, like ShadowPlay.
But thankfully GeForce Experience experience is totally optional, you can just select not to install when you install the driver Honestly it doesn't even have any critical feature https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/geforce-experience/
Then you will not be able to access some of the features that is advertised for the hardware you bought (like shadowplay).
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
> No idea what data Nvidia connects but this sounds even more shady. It gets worse - if you're on Windows and your driver was not installed by an OEM (if it didn't come with the computer, or you reinstalled the OS or something), GeForce Experience wants you to connect to the internet and sign into an Nvidia account to access some features of the graphics card, like ShadowPlay.
But thankfully GeForce Experience experience is totally optional, you can just select not to install when you install the driver Honestly it doesn't even have any critical feature https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/geforce/geforce-experience/
Absolutely, I think I have it installed, but it's intentionally one major version behind (GeForce Experience 2 instead of 3) so it won't make me log in, and that works well enough when I certainly don't let it run in the background, I only boot it up for certain buttons it has. I don't remember which ones - I haven't touched it in months, so they must not be that important anyway.
Edit: Apparently the GeForce Experience that showed up in my search was actually the one that came in the driver support package for my laptop (which I no longer use), I may have never even used it on this computer at all.
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#8> Intel CIP is functionally similar to the Telemetry component of the GeForce Software. NVIDIA's Telemetry is installed and enabled by default along with your GeForce graphics drivers, and you cannot opt out from it, as it does not even figure in the "custom" installer options. No idea what data Nvidia collects but this sounds even more shady.
Huh, I wonder if this applies to people with Linux Nvidia drivers.
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Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#9How can engineers working on this even look at themselves without being ashamed?
For the record: I'm a graphics driver engineer myself.
Re: PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default
#10Intel wants to provide the best computing experiences. To accomplish this, we would like your permission to collect, use, and combine information to understand:
The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself
Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-...