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Because Windows is spyware? Not to be inflammatory, but I don't want to be monetised when I'm just using my computer.

• userbinator 5y ago
  Before Windows 10 (and later backports to 8), it wasn't.
  • Lammy 5y ago
    > Before Windows 10 (and later backports to 8), it wasn't. It has been since _NSAKEY shipped in Windows 95 OSR2's ADVAPI32 http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt http://www.stat.rice.edu/~dobelman/kstorm.txt https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/advapi32/history/index.htm https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/win32/advapi32...
    • userbinator 5y ago
      NSAKEY has already been thoroughly debunked, and was only ever a suspected backdoor, not active spyware.
      • TheRealDunkirk 5y ago
        It's been exhaustively denied. However, given all we know about the CIA/NSA and their activities over the years (ECHELON, AT&T room 641a, intercepting and backdooring routers, PRISM, etc., et. al.), there is no amount of bloviating from Microsoft that will make me believe NSAKEY wasn't, and isn't, exactly what it looks like. In the end, you can't prove a negative, so all you can do is believe whatever you want to believe, informed by everything else we already know.
• pjmlp 5y ago
  I assume you also don't use anything Google related then.
  • sleepycatgirl 5y ago
    Me running Google thingy does not mean I want to be spied on in every other place or on system level (Though I am working on moving away from Google) Anyhow, Privacy is not a boolean (Either you have it or not), but more of... A gradient? Running Google stuff and Linux as system, is certainly more towards privacy, than Windows + Google.