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First of all, I've never seen an ad in my start menu. You can disable live tiles. Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.
by nightski 8y ago
First of all, I've never seen an ad in my start menu. You can disable live tiles.
Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware.
- sametmax 8y ago"It's not stealing your wallet, it's anonymous redistribution of wealth"
- doingmyting 8y agoI still don't get the aversion and outcry at any sign of data collection from software companies. It just seems so cultish. Media tells you data being collected is bad so you grab your pitchfork. If a company is collecting my data without my consent non-anonymously and selling it for profit then yes I don't like that. But why the outcry of a company collecting data anonymously to make a product I use regularly better for me?
- Bartweiss 8y agoAfter perhaps the fourth time I disabled Cortana and cleaned up mysteriously re-enabled bloatware on the Start menu, I started getting the same "I don't own this device" feeling I've had for years with smartphones. It's obviously less egregious than e.g. Facebook, but it's also a more fundamental element of the stack where I'm less willing to tolerate bad behavior. If it was simply a matter of doing a bunch of cleanup one, I'd get over it. But between buggy, user-unfriendly update features and instantly-out-of-date instructions on what I need to turn off, it's uncomfortably reminiscent of Android's issues.
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- kurtisc 8y ago>Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware. On this note: if you opt-out of telemetry, don't complain when your power-user features stop being catered to.
- fxfan 8y agowhere is my jump list from task bar! "omg m$ sucks"
- JohnFen 8y ago> Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware. I think there is plenty of room for legitimate disagreement on this point so long as it's not optional and/or fully disclosed.