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Are we still on with the FUD about telemetry? It doesn't help anybody except probably the one guy who 'Showed Microsoft'. Telemetry helps improve products and
by fxfan 7y ago
Are we still on with the FUD about telemetry?
It doesn't help anybody except probably the one guy who 'Showed Microsoft'.
Telemetry helps improve products and opt-out means the product company will miss out on the behavior of power users thereby not being able to optimize their software for their usage.
- paavoova 7y ago> Telemetry helps improve products and opt-out Did you mean to write "opt-in", or are you suggesting it's OK for software to refuse the choice to opt out of data tracking? "Power users" simply do not use such software or block connections via firewall.
- fxfan 7y agoPlease don't spread FUD. Tracking makes it sound like I'm being followed. This is collecting usage-data.
- paavoova 7y agoGPS-related telemetry, say in modern cars or smartphones, is akin to being followed. The latter isn't even anonymized, e.g. recently police identified suspects by issuing a warrant to Google for devices in the vicinity, or Tesla having all the car data in case of an accident. Web tracking such as analytics or canvas, things like "advertising tags" being assigned to your profile, is you being digitally followed across various sites you visit. "Usage-data" decided by developers, malicious or otherwise, may not be just usage data from the user's perspective. You can hardly dismiss all telemetry concerns as invalid when "telemetry" is a catchall term for most any data collection. And the other side of it is the user and being in control of the software they run, which entails opt-in or at the minimum leaving the option to opt-out.