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Not to defend them, but in modern world my assumption is that everything I do on the machine is recorded by someone. As long as my bank account is not affected
by CmonDev 11y ago
Not to defend them, but in modern world my assumption is that everything I do on the machine is recorded by someone. As long as my bank account is not affected, not sure I care.
- irishcoffee 11y agoHope you don't do online banking.
- JustSomeNobody 11y agoIt's very sad when people just give up like this.
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- miguelrochefort 11y agoCan someone explain this?
- fixermark 11y agoIt's not giving up; it's embracing a set of risks for a reward. The question is whether one feels the set of risks and the reward are too ill-defined to make the trade worth it. Microsoft appears to be in the business of trying to build a fully-functioning virtual assistant. If they're solving that problem with big data, they need a full stream of the user's behavior to operate on. But the tradeoff---an actual, working virtual assistant---could very well be worth it to people for whom that personal information is not worth hiding from a corporation with no vested interest in undermining their customer base by irresponsibly divulging that data. If anything's sad, it's that we live in a world where some people do not have the freedom to treat their private info so loosely. That's a true tragedy, because there will increasingly be technologies they can't take advantage of.
- RankingMember 11y agoI think they should definitely have the freedom to treat their private info loosely, but I think that the decision itself should be an Opt-in rather than an Opt-out affair. We shouldn't have to build our own tools to turn this off.
- mike-cardwell 11y agoWhy not run an operating system which doesn't do this instead? I.e, any major non-Ubuntu Linux distro. Debian's pretty good.
- sokoloff 11y agoI'd like to ask a short diversion question: why specifically not Ubuntu?
- mike-cardwell 11y agohttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am... I assume the same sort of stuff is happening on Ubuntu today, but I stopped using Ubuntu on the desktop/laptop when this came out and started using Debian instead.
- em3rgent0rdr 11y agofact checking: in 2014 Ubuntu make the amazon unity thing opt in: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc... but regardless, they've lost too much respect/credibility for including it in the first place, so I wouldn't trust them in general.
- seyfulislam 11y agoWhy would you not recommend Ubuntu? It's been several years since last time I use desktop version but it was pretty good then.
- codingvelocity 11y agoUbuntu implemented the Amazon lens by default a few years ago. People got cranky about it.
- mike-cardwell 11y ago
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoAs long as your aren't the current group it is popular to pick on and you don't anger (or make fall in love) anyone with significant power, you'll probably be fine. I'm sure there were plenty who didn't care about slavery as long as they weren't the slaves.