Browsing history, personal info, etc?
Why are people feeling like Win10 is a trojan horse OS, so to speak?
Why are people feeling like Win10 is a trojan horse OS, so to speak?
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Forcing Win10? Come on. Data mining is nothing new, and if you're that concerned about it then you can take measures to mitigate it or avoid the product altogether. Disabling updates isn't really the way to go, you want the latest vulnerabilities patched and so on. You can always control what comes in and out of your connection by fine tuning what's happening at the router level and by using wireshark captures on your device to analyze traffic on its way out. etc etc etc.By default it does. There are ways to turn it off and/or block it, but my feeling is that if I need to do stuff like that just so I can feel safe using my own computer, then that OS does not belong on my computer in first place. I switched to Linux around the time Windows 8 came out and don't regret it. I have a win7 machine for gaming but it's usually off. i disabled windows updates on it to be safe as nothing stops MS from forcing win10 or telemetry on Win7. Though if I wanted to be really safe I could probably just put it on another vlan and have lot of outbound traffic restrictions.
We live in an age where we really really really can't trust ANY company now. If they don't leak your data because of their incompetence, they leak it because they are making money off it.
Windows 10 is free for the same reason Facebook is free. You are the product.
Essentially, think of your local profile in NT, now roaming over the "cloud". Same concept, slightly different implementation and devices. Big whoop.
MS says they don't collect that stuff, there is no real way to prove they do unless someone can decrypt the telemetry data they are collecting. You can either choose to believe what MS says or not.
Most people are misunderstanding what is being collected or just making stuff up. For example, browsing history is collected in the sense that your browsing history can be sync'd between Win10 devices. That requires that they collect and store that data in the cloud, but it is for your use not MS. The alarmists will take that information and claim that MS is spying on you.
By default it does. There are ways to turn it off and/or block it, but my feeling is that if I need to do stuff like that just so I can feel safe using my own computer, then that OS does not belong on my computer in first place. I switched to Linux around the time Windows 8 came out and don't regret it. I have a win7 machine for gaming but it's usually off. i disabled windows updates on it to be safe as nothing stops MS from forcing win10 or telemetry on Win7. Though if I wanted to be really safe I could probably just put it on another vlan and have lot of outbound traffic restrictions.
We live in an age where we really really really can't trust ANY company now. If they don't leak your data because of their incompetence, they leak it because they are making money off it.
Windows 10 is free for the same reason Facebook is free. You are the product.
Funny I mentioned "If they don't leak your data because of their incompetence..." speaking for all the data leaks that keep happening, and it turns out Wendy's recently had a credit card breach... What the hell? Do companies even try anymore when it comes to security?
Windows 10 as it is now seems like a tablet/phone os designed to push users to the Windows store , while getting to know you . Windows 7 x 64 seems like a desktop os , at least to me . Thankfully there exist many ways now to avoid the pungent ms ' upgrade' .
Same here.Wrong. I use Win10 daily and not ONCE have I been "pushed" to the Windows store. I visited it ONCE voluntarily to see what there was to see (not much) and have NEVER gone back.
Quit spreading unsubstantiated FUD
And that is a BAD thing. I don't want any of that to be on someone else's server. Not to mention if my internet goes down I don't want stuff to stop working because it's relying on some outside service.
Though you can disable that remote profile stuff... for now.
Yeah, there are lots of things to turn off in Win10. Google is your friend.
You seem smart enough that I think if you spent another day googling what you're talking about, you'd come to a less paranoid conclusion. It's meta data at best being 'shared' and you can turn everything off.