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> Heck even Hacker News is "collecting my every keystroke!" Not until you press return > > But Cortana doesn’t stop there [...] you can't shut Cortana off. >
by spdustin 10y ago
> Heck even Hacker News is "collecting my every keystroke!"
Not until you press return
> > But Cortana doesn’t stop there [...] you can't shut Cortana off.
> Misleading.
No, I don't think it is. You can tell her to "stop getting to know me", but you can't turn her off, because her offline services are basically rebadged offline desktop search. Cortana as the personification of search cannot be disabled, and heretofore unspecified telemetry regarding your search behavior is still sent to Microsoft. There is no way to disable or block this telemetry without third party tools.
- raesene9 10y agoDo you have any additional details about the "unspecified telemetry" that's sent to Microsoft? I thought from my readings on the subject that pretty much all of the telemetry could be disabled via in OS options (even if some of them are rather harder to get to than I'd like)
- cptskippy 10y ago> heretofore unspecified telemetry regarding your search behavior is still sent to Microsoft. Can you site your source for where Microsoft collects search telemetry data? They definitely collect telemetry data about all versions of windows going back to XP but what that entails has never been clearly outlined. I feel like you're jumping to conclusions.
- Xyik 10y ago> Not until you press return Maybe true for HN, but not necessarily true for other sites like google search / FB search. It's common practice to send all keystrokes to the server to speed up searches.