PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry by Default

Post by JohnFen » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 7:59 PM UTC

nottorp wrote: post #94

Contusion3532 wrote: post #12

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They'll rationalize their behavior, just like most of us do. "All the other companies are already doing it", "No one cares about privacy", "It's not my decision", "We need this data to help the customers".

Well let's ask HN: How many of us click accept on those annoying cookie dialogs or have an extension do it for them? And how many take the time to find the reject button and/or install appropriate extensions that will do the rejection? I'm in the second category but I'm sure the first one is the majority, mostly because they just don't care.

Post by JohnFen » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

zerkten wrote: post #111

TheRoque wrote: post #85

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GDPR is not only about where the data goes, it's also about asking for the user explicit consent for their data collection [0], this is what I was referring to. Not the telemetry collection. I just thought it worked for other stuff than cookies. https://www.privacyaffairs.com/cookie-consent/

I think that's a good point. Companies are likely going to try to neutralize this by saying that telemetry just being another kind of data that they can make safe by removing PII etc.

Post by qwytw » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 8:05 PM UTC

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The worst thing about linux is that it is made an maintained by people who like linux. I would love more than anything to see a paid fork of linux whose goal was to make a power user friendly user OS that never needs to pull up a CLI. People will come out of woodwork here to suggest whatever shitty half-assed CLI wrapper enviroment. No. No. No. They suck. I have been using them on and off for 20 years. Including righ…

Power users require CLI on every OS. Not just Linux, but also Windows or OSX, to be specific.

Post by OO000oo » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 8:11 PM UTC

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> If you need Photoshop or Word or another industry standard software then you don't count. But you can always use GIMP, right?! OK, this was a bad joke.

To be fair this is adobe's fault. The only reason it isn't available on linux is because adobe goes to great technical and legal lengths to ensure it can't be. A VM with seamless windowing isn't a bad solution for running that kind of forcewear, compromising the whole host OS seems excessive.

Post by Aerroon » Mon, Aug 07, 2023, 8:30 PM UTC

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Switching to linux is a good option but the ideal solution is one where coporations do not or are not allowed to collect telemetry by default. Microsoft has normalized default optout telemetry in the OS, IDE & developer tooling and now others are also following suit even in areas where telemetry doesn't make sense. I wish there is an easy solution to the pervasive telemetry problem for those who can't switch for any…

Microsoft has really poisoned the well with default-always-on-telemetry. Technical solutions (firewalls, switching to Linux, etc.) aren't necessarily practical for many people. > the ideal solution is one where corporations do not or are not allowed to collect telemetry by default This is probably the only effective solution, but I don't see it happening without enforceable legislation.