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People who use their google accounts and Chrome ubiquitously already get spied on by GA at a much bigger scale through all the sites they visit in their browser
by mizzao 11y ago
People who use their google accounts and Chrome ubiquitously already get spied on by GA at a much bigger scale through all the sites they visit in their browser.
Why is it a big uproar when it happens at the OS level? Seems like it's pretty much the same thing. We always have the option of using Linux if we don't like it.
- ihsw 11y agoBecause the pressure should go in the opposite direction -- they should have to find users that want to be spied on, we shouldn't have to find operating systems that don't spy on us. I wouldn't otherwise have used Windows had I known they'd be shoving their telemetry reporting down my throat.
- Hjugo 11y agoBecause it is easier to switch a browser then a OS and many just can't switch to linux.
- kardos 11y agoChrome -- as far as we know -- doesn't transmit all of your keystrokes to Google, nor does it transmit the contents or indexes of your local filesystem(s) back to Google.
- McGlockenshire 11y agoYou're posting FUD. Those permissions are required in the context of Cortana, so Cortana can work. Keep Cortana off and turn off the services, and nothing gets transmitted. It's literally no worse than the conditions you agree to when using Siri or Ok Google / Google Now.
- kardos 11y agoIf you'll allow Wikipedia to define FUD [1], > FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information. What part is dubious or false? Do you need me to quote the Win 10 privacy policy? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
- alanh 11y ago> literally no worse than Siri Now who is posting FUD? Apple would never do something so egregious as to upload a copy of all the filenames on my computer.
- yuhong 11y agoI don't think Win10 likely is doing so either.
- RaleyField 11y ago> Why is it a big uproar when it happens at the OS level? Because you paid for it and because it's a tradition and because it's the way it should be™. Chrome is bad enough with url bar suggestions, sign in for syncing is equally bad, but at least you are aware of it and you didn't pay for it. But Chrome being bad isn't a reason Windows should become bad as well.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoGA doesn't record all my keystrokes and voice like W10 (and now W7-8) have been accused of doing in this thread. And there was an uproar when iirc Chromium was doing something similar with voice a few months back, which was pulled later.
- yuhong 11y agoYou can turn Cortana off in Win10 too.
- yellowapple 11y agoWhich (allegedly) doesn't actually stop the data collection.
- aikah 11y ago> People who use their google accounts and Chrome whataboutism and has nothing to do with a current discussion. Chrome the browser is not an operating system.
- tdkl 11y agoBecause we use our computers for different things, not only browsing the web.