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I keep hearing about telemetry but how bad is it really? Doesn't macOS collects some as well?
by 908B64B197 6y ago
I keep hearing about telemetry but how bad is it really? Doesn't macOS collects some as well?
- WorldMaker 6y agoI think it's very similar what macOS collects and what Windows does these days. I don't know if macOS has a tool like this, but anyone curious exactly what telemetry Windows is collect, Microsoft provides a Diagnostic Data Viewer tool to explore it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-data-viewer-overview https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/diagnostic-... There's a ton of documentation at this point on everything Windows collects as telemetry. (Most of the same telemetry is in Windows 7, fwiw. A lot of the telemetry systems were added in Vista or XP. The biggest change was Windows 10 turned on a lot more of it on by default rather than nagging people to join the various "Customer Experience Improvement Programs" and consolidating all those opt-in/opt-out "improvement programs" from a half-dozen different nag dialogs to a single privacy settings panel.)
- vetinari 6y agoMacOS asks you about it in the OOBE (you can change your decision later in the System Preferences) and then respects your decision. A novel concept, I know.