Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent
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#2So why are we allowing Microsoft to get away with it?
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#3What has Microsoft done with user consent?
Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent
#4So why are we allowing Microsoft to get away with it?
Why are we allowing any of the corporations, governments, and police departments to get away with any of the stupid shit they continuously do? Mostly because it would take a significant act of power to do anything about it, power which we don't have and even if we do, we do not wish to exercise. The exercising of which would probably cause more problems in the short term than it would solve. Most people will not do anything about such problems.
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#5It seems Microsoft's position is that if a user has auto-updates on, they have consented to downloading the installer for Windows 10.
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#6It seems Microsoft's position is that if a user has auto-updates on, they have consented to downloading the installer for Windows 10.
The default selection is to download and install updates automatically. You'd think they would check for available disk space beforehand though.
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#7It seems Microsoft's position is that if a user has auto-updates on, they have consented to downloading the installer for Windows 10.
The default selection is to download and install updates automatically. You'd think they would check for available disk space beforehand though.
Is there a reason Windows just lets you run out of disk space? On Linux when I'm downloading something and come close to running out of space the download stops and I get an alert saying I need to delete something.
Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent
#8So why are we allowing Microsoft to get away with it?
Why are we allowing any of the corporations, governments, and police departments to get away with any of the stupid shit they continuously do? Mostly because it would take a significant act of power to do anything about it, power which we don't have and even if we do, we do not wish to exercise. The exercising of which would probably cause more problems in the short term than it would solve. Most people will not do a…
Agreed, most will probably do nothing that's an inconvenience. It just seems that Windows 10 should be causing us all to leave Windows completely since it is out rightly not respecting users and not even caring about it. Linux time.
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#9Anyone know what the "$Windows.~BT" folder is would supposedly be located?
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#10I wouldn't argue that I haven't given consent if I have "download updates automatically" in my settings.
That being said, Microsoft should use better judgment in terms of checking for available disk space (i.e. don't auto download 6GB worth of updates unless 20GB+ space is available on the drive) and not saturating customer connections since the update is by no means critical (i.e. limit it to 10% of the user's bandwidth)