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Also ads for Candy Crush in you operating system. Microsoft is scum. They have not changed from the 90s, they are just better at hiding it.
Hatera gonna hate What about Guitar Hero crap boundled with every Mac?
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Would that delete the data that has already been transferred to Microsoft? And as others mentioned: the portal is useless for people without MS account. What about those?
That's exactly what this option does. It deletes everything that has been collected up until that point.
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Yeah it only comes bundled if you do a "full" install off the MacOS media. I do a fresh minimal install on mine. Windows users, myself included, have always been upset about the bundling. When you buy a PC these days you have to spend about 2-3 hours removing all the crap from it or doing an install from scratch to remove the cocked up default windows install. I think that less upset is more toleration via attrition.…
This isn't Microsoft putting that junk on your computer. In a stock install of Windows you will have Windows Store installs of Candy Crush and some other junk, but none of it is running when the machine boots. It's also very simple to delete, but it is annoying it is there in the first place.
Microsoft placed it into my library and you can't remove it unless you first install it and then uninstall it and I don't want to install it so I'm stuck with it. It's egregiously a dark pattern[0]. On the other hand Garage Band is first party code which presumably enjoys the same level of quality as the main OS so it's fine.
I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1].
For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start menu, Microsoft immediately sends a ping to bing.com and Microsoft's telemetry servers. That is, Microsoft is sending all of the data entered into the start menu to Microsoft's servers, even when using the 'Pro' version and with 'full' telemtry off.
When it was first detected that Microsoft was adding telemetry calls to all compiled programs in Windows [2], Microsoft said it was mostly for event debugging for programmers. Now I'm not so sure -- look at your Microsoft account privacy settings to see that Microsoft tracks when you open applications. (They say on the page that not all data is shown there).
Unforutnately, there is no way to opt out of this. You can "disable" full telemetry, but you still have to opt into "Basic" telemetry, which still sends your advertiser ID, the programs you run, and the queries you put into the start menu. I'm concerned that Microsoft is not going to stop here. They have a real incentive to capture as much data about you as they can -- they currently earn about $1 billion in advertising through Bing.com search queries. Unlike Google or especially Facebook, however, it's much more difficult to opt out of Microsoft's tracking -- so many people depend on Microsoft Office or other Windows programs that I can't fully switch to Linux.
I don't know how this is acceptable through GDPR. There are so many problems with what Microsoft is doing:
1. There is no way to opt out of telemetry
2. There is no way to see all of the data that Microsoft has collected
3. Microsoft has severe lock-in because so much software is written for Windows-only
4. Microsoft has an incentive to increase their telemetry, not decrease it.
[1] https://imgur.com/a/MbjtYJe
[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/4ibauu/visual_studio_a...
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> Microsoft is reinventing itself. Agreed. They're no longer selling software licences, but targeted ads based on what you do locally on your personal computer. And people "allow" this by not jumping through hoops to disable it.
> They're no longer selling software licences, but targeted ads based on what you do locally on your personal computer. They're doing both , but Google does something like that as well (that doesn't make it right, but it puts it in perspective that its the newest rage), and Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. The old Microsoft was much more evil than the current.
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But I don't have a Microsoft account (only ever used local accounts in Windows 10). How can I ask for all my data which is associated with my installation/license?
My best guess would be that your data is going through pseudonymization and so you are no longer uniquely identifiable. [1] By contrast to anonymization, Article 4(5) of the GDPR defines pseudonymization as “the processing of personal data in such a way that the data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information.” By holding the de-identified data separately from the…
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The principles of data protection should apply to any information concerning an identified or identifiable natural person. Personal data which have undergone pseudonymisation, which could be attributed to a natural person by the use of additional information should be considered to be information on an identifiable natural person.
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Why not allow to me to stop that collection in the first place?
You can, what do you see on your report that you want to stop?
How? Unless you have Windows 10 Enterprise Microsoft will not allow you to opt-out of basic telemetry.
> What do you see on your report that you want to stop?
Why does that matter?
I'm not convinced. I run a Pi-Hole [0] to redirect all advertising-related queries to a black hole. When tracking the most-blocked domains, Microsoft is at the very top [1]. For instance, when I enter "Office" into the start menu, Microsoft immediately sends a ping to bing.com and Microsoft's telemetry servers. That is, Microsoft is sending all of the data entered into the start menu to Microsoft's servers, even when…