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How will this affect GNU/Linux? They mention an installer and a yes/no prompt, which to me implies Windows. If it can be disabled, I suppose distro packagers will likely make the choice for the user when they create the package. Or is this a driver that would be included in the kernel itself?
It will not affect Linux
I don't understand the need to include "the types of websites you visit" in GPU driver telemetry. AMD's telemetry doesn't seem to include that: https://www.amd.com/en/legal/privacy/user-experience-program... I couldn't figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.
Do you visit Youtube and Twitch other streaming services often? Focus on video decoding.
Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration.
There are reasons this data can be useful, especially since Intel wants to unfuck their otherwise imperially fucked drivers. Websites aren't just plain text with window dressing anymore, they are entire programs unto themselves.
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If they would collect what games you are playing, to know on which games they have to optimize the drivers / framerate down-the-road that'd be ok. But websites you visit...
To be fair, websites can also contain games and other stuff that might use a GPU.
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It will not affect Linux
Six months later: Our analytics show very little uptake in Linux use so we are reallocating investment towards windows users.
A terrifying side-effect of AI is that everything is now potential "training data" and there's financial incentive to vacuum up any and all possible data. The situation on Windows is much worse than Chrome extensions (which have been attempting this for awhile) because of the near non-existent permission limits on Windows. I was shocked to learn just yesterday that Nvidia drivers were doing this. It feels extremely g…
(or maybe I'm just being overly optimistic)
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To be fair, websites can also contain games and other stuff that might use a GPU.
Hardware accelerated video decoding for Youtube, Twitch, etc. for a very mundane example.
One question I don't see asked in the various threads covering this: why does windows freely offer such data? At least Intel does give you an opt out (should be opt in really), but other applications can freely collect this data without you knowing. Windows needs to have much better control maybe a "telemetry" setting to control each apps access to the data, but that would most likely require some serious reengineeri…
So to answer your question of why, the answer is simply that Windows doesn't care.
I don't understand the need to include "the types of websites you visit" in GPU driver telemetry. AMD's telemetry doesn't seem to include that: https://www.amd.com/en/legal/privacy/user-experience-program... I couldn't figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.
>I don't understand the need to include "the types of websites you visit" in GPU driver telemetry. Do you visit Youtube and Twitch other streaming services often? Focus on video decoding. Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration. There are reasons this data can be useful, especially since Intel wants to unfuck their otherwise imperially fucked drivers. Websites aren't just plain t…
> Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration.
This is almost cynical. Why not track your user's eyes and record the screen to see where or if visual fidelity at certain parts is necessary? You know, to optimize the architecture.