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Arh yes, the good old "everything means nothing" argument. I'm sorry to say, but words have meaning [1][2], and most of them are formally defined. And yes, I t
by Genbox 4y ago
Arh yes, the good old "everything means nothing" argument. I'm sorry to say, but words have meaning [1][2], and most of them are formally defined.
And yes, I think that an HTTP POST to Microsoft's Windows Terminal team saying "UserUsedTerminalInInterative = true" is not a privacy issue, nor is it spying.
Can you explain to me how this information hurt users of Windows Terminal? If it indeed is spying, it should be possible to demonstrate how it is used for hostile purposes or why such an innocuous piece of information must be kept a secret.
Until then, I think it is fair for the Windows Terminal team to collect such basic telemetry for their software
[1]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spying https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spying
[2]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privacy
- imwillofficial 4y agoWhat a low effort comment. Yes, words have meanings. Company A May decide telemetry exposes too much internal information to a potential competitor. Company B May decide that telemetry does not release anything they want kept secret. Those are subjective opinions. If I want the data to be kept secret and somebody takes it without my explicit approval, that is a privacy violation. If I don’t care, it’s not. Same thing with spying. If I deem it a secret, it is now spying to take it from me.
- ridiculous_fish 4y agoIt appears to send back the names of programs, so MS is learning when their users do shady activities (torrenting, youtube-dl) or use competitors' products (aws) or even the names of internal tools.