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I think this is great, they are pretty upfront with what they are collecting and why they need that What's with all these negative comments here? Does any othe
by bostand 10y ago
I think this is great, they are pretty upfront with what they are collecting and why they need that
What's with all these negative comments here? Does any other os give you so much information about what is going on behind the scene?
- ajkjk 10y agoIt's just duplicitous corporatespeak. They do whatever they want, ignoring privacy entirely, for years, and then claim to have a "continuing commitment". They don't care about privacy, they just care that they got flak in the press about privacy so they're trying to backpedal about it.
- floopidydoopidy 10y agoSeriously? Linux and BSD, for example, give you complete control over all the information harvested from you.
- bostand 10y agoMost of the time. Do you remember Ubuntu amazon search? Their geolocation database?
- uabstraction 10y agoYeah, one distribution tried this a few years back, got grilled to a char by the community for it, and swiftly trashed the idea. This is nothing like Microsoft turning Windows into one giant dark pattern and trying to convince the world that it's progress while showing no signs of backing down despite the overwhelming backlash. Ubuntu's Amazon integration was a failed experiment in an ecosystem with literally hundreds of other players to choose from while Microsoft's Windows telemetry is an inescapable dogma forced upon all Windows users.
- bostand 10y agoUbuntu is still doing some questionable things. At least on 16.04 gvfs-http would sometimes create hundreds of connections to the mothership even with all privacy settings maxed out.
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- have_faith 10y agoThe title is "our continuing commitment to privacy". You have to start something to continue it.
- MichaelGG 10y agoAre they? From reading it I'm not certain exactly what Basic level reports - seems like a lot.
- kofejnik 10y agodid you register an account just to praise M$'s privacy initiative?
- cmac2992 10y agoI'm with you. Its objectively a move in the right direction. is it far enough? maybe not. Seems shitty to chastise a company for moving toward better privacy and transparency while listening to customer feedback. Seems like "a damned if you do, damned if you don't" scenario.
- hendersoon 10y agoThey don't allow users to opt-out of telemetry. That is what I want, and nothing less will satisfy me.