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Why the hell does windows think it's ok to secretly phone home with crash reports by default, especially when sending those makes the problem worse by slowing d
by foobarbecue 4y ago
Why the hell does windows think it's ok to secretly phone home with crash reports by default, especially when sending those makes the problem worse by slowing down the crash recovery? In this case the problem would probably have been insignificant if not for super slow, blocking, error telemetry. At least store these and send them later, sheesh.
- fexecve 4y agoWoah woah woah, who said this is "secret"? Were you expecting a big red skull and crossbones to take over your screen whenever a phone home occurs?
- brucedawson 4y agoThey only send crash reports if you opt-in to the customer experience improvement program (or whatever it's called), I believe. In general I think that sending crash dumps is _great_. Sending crash dumps is the number one reason why software is more reliable now than it was twenty or thirty years ago. But, synchronously sending a crash dump together with not telling the user that you are synchronously sending a crash dump - that is problematic. But, I can see how they got to this state. But, if they are going to upload crash dumps they need to promptly address the crashes and I'd love to know why that did not happen.