I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

Post by jsz0 » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 3:48 AM UTC

batou wrote: post #190

Animats wrote: post #167

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"Windows is now essentially a personalized, cloud-based operating system with the primary interface as a personal assistant." Who wanted that for desktop computers or laptops? This is not going to fly with business customers. Microsoft has already bombed twice in the business space, with Windows Vista and Windows 8. This looks like another bomb. Windows 7 is still pretty good, and it will probably be the main Microso…

Absolutely no one wanted it. No one asked for it. We were spun a load of marketing disguised as listening and attention. This turned out to be exactly what Microsoft wanted which was another aggressive move against customers both business and consumer. Despite all this the noise and confusion and dubious love for the products is shining out of the arses of every non technical news source. What did we expect? I've lef…

Post by nhf » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 3:55 AM UTC

lewisl9029 wrote: post #136

This was also recently brought to my attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9973629 Windows 10 RTM has peer to peer updates over the internet as the default. I could swear it defaulted to local-only in the preview, so I didn't even check it until now after doing a clean install of RTM.

Post by bitmapbrother » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 4:04 AM UTC

niyogi wrote: post #248

It's too bad that microsoft continues to be villainized when companies like Facebook and Google have social networks and browsers respectively that have similar practices that users are even more unaware of when they use them. Computers these days have become thin clients for browsers (especially for the typical consumer). Except for the occasional open of Word or Excel, you're in your web browser browsing the web an…

Post by lysium » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 4:05 AM UTC

pmelendez wrote: post #173

joosters wrote: post #85

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It's possible to do all this personalization without giving away your data to advertisers. Unfortunately Microsoft chose not to. Why do people seem to gloss over the fact that we can implement these technologies without losing privacy? e.g. voice recognition has been possible on home computers for decades now. You don't need the cloud for it.

> Why do people seem to gloss over the fact that we can implement these technologies without losing privacy? e.g. voice recognition has been possible on home computers for decades now. You don't need the cloud for it. The experience is not quite the same. We have voice recognition since at least late 90's but you have to spend long hours training (> 20 hrs) in order to have a decent result (not even comparable). The…

Post by chronic40 » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 4:14 AM UTC

bitmapbrother wrote: post #434

natmaster wrote: post #198

I find it shocking how people readily accept Google's far worse policies, and yet are so concerned about an easy opt out. For instance, in Android, Google tracks with GPS accuracy your whereabouts constantly. This isn't just what IP your desktop is attached to. Furthermore, there is no prompt telling you this happens with a very easy way of undoing. In fact even if you knew about this it is very hard to find a way to…

>I find it shocking how people readily accept Google's far worse policies I find it shocking how hypocritical Microsoft was towards Google all these years only to find out their even worse than Google because they baked these privacy "violations" into their browser. >Secondly, Chrome send every website you visit to their servers to be logged Utter bullshit. I don't login to Chrome when I use it and none of my URL's a…