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TL;DR: Fix Windows 10 Privacy can be used via a GUI or the commandline. Right now it implements about 130 rules, which keep Windows 10 in check, regardin
by jlg23 10y ago
TL;DR:
Fix Windows 10 Privacy can be used via a GUI or the
commandline. Right now it implements about 130 rules,
which keep Windows 10 in check, regarding data protection.
And:
OneDrive Cloud users or users of others of the above mentioned features should refrain from using this tool at this time, because the functionality of these services will be limited or disabled after running it.
- brudgers 10y agoReading through the article, it seems like I remember Windows 10 exposing all of these settings to the end user.
- yAnonymous 10y ago"Do you not want to disable spy feature X? Yes means no and no means yes. YES/NO" The wording on these options is deliberately misleading and there are way too many of them in different places. Microsoft know full well that everyone would just click "NO" when asked whether to activate all these telemetry tools in simple language.
- cm2187 10y agoPlus if you need to click on every single one of them and go through the confirmations, you will get a cramp. Better to use a tool for that.
- pc86 10y ago> Microsoft know full well that everyone would just click "NO" when asked whether to activate all these telemetry tools in simple language. That's not true. I am more than happy to share anonymous usage and telemetry data with software providers, assuming that it's clear what I am sending, that it's anonymous, and that I can easily change my decision later. Simple language makes me far more likely to give you as much anonymous data as you want. If I can't tell what I'll be sharing, I won't be sharing anything.
- brudgers 10y agoI recall the experience as straight forward. I'm curious about examples of misleading setting descriptions.
- yAnonymous 10y agoIt starts with the 'customize' button being almost illegibly small, hidden and not even looking like a button, compared to the 'use express settings' one.
- cptskippy 10y agoYou're right about the anti-patterns and I don't like that they're referred to as spying. In any case Microsoft has been addressing some of them. My father in law was reinstalling Windows 10 and I was guiding him through it because I remembered a couple of these trick questions(e.g. Cortana). I noticed a couple places where they fixed it.
- invokestatic 10y agoSome were available through group policies which you could argue is exposed, but I'd say isn't exactly user-friendly.
- joeyrideout 10y agoThis post begs the question, "how do these registry changes go above and beyond compared to the system settings?" I have a Windows 10 machine and the first thing I did was carefully pick through all of the menus and disable everything I didn't like the look of privacy-wise. I would be much more inclined to download and use this tool if I knew there was more to disable.
- AlexandrB 10y agoAFAIK there's no way to disable telemetry in the "regular" version of Windows 10. Best you can do is set it to "Basic".