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"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
by 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.