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And this is treated as a bad thing?!
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Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.
In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.
The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".
Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.
Maybe also not Ubuntu or RHEL? I heard they also collect telemetries and hard to trun off. Unsure.
i actually uninstalled the telemetry package and it stopped even being able to enable telemetry
The telemetry is opt in so feel free to use them. (Correct me if i am wrong)
Chris Titus debloat script is the only thing that makes Windows even remotely usable these days.
Thata true, but you if used in a vm you should be careful as preset selections could end up removing functions on your guest vm.
The year is 2050
Booting up Windows84
Hello, your NSA overseer is Mr. X
It appears that you have committed 147 thought crimes this week....your accounts shall be ghosted for the time being.
I had a need for one piece of corporate windows program once. Installed Windows AME , only way to really get rid of all crap. All the debloating software and scripts get easily reversed by windows otherwise.
As soon as you start running a pihole on your home network it makes really stop and think and want to eradicate all unnecessary data tracking. Windows was so chatty. Science only knows how much of a consumer profile they create and sell on you for just wanting to use a computer.
Additionally... Smart TV's are the absolute worst too.
Amazon Kindle, too. If there's a pihole, it freaks out and starts retrying the mothership in a loop until it drains the damned battery. Airplane Mode quiets this, but I hate how aggressive these devices have become.
Absolutely disgusting! Literally the only reason why I still use Windows is the fact many games I play have anti-cheat spyware that doesn't work on Linux.
