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> If Microsoft does something in the interest of their users it is suddenly "for marketing purposes"? If Microsoft gave a shit about its users it wouldn't put
by us0r 9y ago
> If Microsoft does something in the interest of their users it is suddenly "for marketing purposes"?
If Microsoft gave a shit about its users it wouldn't put key loggers in its products, explicitly state that spell check in your word documents is being done in the "cloud" and we are reading it, let you disable stupid cortona who is slurping up hell knows what, etc.
They are so obsessed with tracking you that if you surf their sites long enough you end up with a HTTP 400 - Bad Request (Request header too long) error message. I just pulled up MSDN look at the scroll bar on the right https://i.imgur.com/wlYqVIo.png https://i.imgur.com/wlYqVIo.png.
No they don't care about users.
- Fnoord 9y ago> If Microsoft gave a shit about its users [...] While I like that you're mentioning examples and welcome such, it is never this black-and-white. All these big corps do things which aren't in the best interest of the general public, or in the best interest of their users. Microsoft is no exception to that (I am well aware of the Halloween documents and hated that company to no ends), but 1) neither are Google and Facebook 2) they've broadened from a proprietary software company. The open source community seemed to be pretty happy with pro-FOSS companies such as Google and Facebook getting more popular and powerful. Free as in beer seems like a great deal, but you're always paying somehow. In this case you pay with your privacy. Companies like Google and Facebook do a lot of Good Things (tm) for the FOSS community, but in this specific case they're on the bad side of the moral compass because it hurts a major source of their income.