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Oh nobody is ever disabling telemetry by default, system wide. Telemetry is too damn useful for developers. Nobody gives a damn.

• rightbyte 5y ago
  Is it really? In general I feel spying is used to cut longtail feutures (most users are dependent on one of them) and justify changes without reason other than flawed interpretation of statistics.
  • suby 5y ago
    Moreover, their software quality has gone downhill ever since their pervasive telemetry. I am not claiming that it is the cause of the decline, but it did not prevent it. It's curious that the version of windows which most people liked best was 7, the one without all the telemetry. I think it's also hard to overcome the feeling that everything you do on their software is being monitored and evaluated. Even if we accept the argument that telemetry improves software through allowing them to focus on more used features, the improvements need to offset the feeling that you're being spied on, and that's a tough ask.
    • urthor 5y ago
      I agree. Telemetry is mostly used to figure out things which you don't need to do because nobody uses them in my experience. Still, it's a tool of big corporate to provide transparency to VPs, and VPs would love to cut costs in Windows since it's a captive market.