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MS has made it very clear that they want to see and know everything you do and store on a windows computer. They want to mine all that data for their own gain a

MS has made it very clear that they want to see and know everything you do and store on a windows computer. They want to mine all that data for their own gain and will use it to profile you and push ads. They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences and any settings they might offer today to disable the consumer hostile anti-features they add to windows can be silently removed or reset at any time with a forced update. That's just what it means to use windows. While MS works to collect as much data about you, your online activities, and your personal files as possible, law enforcement and lawyers are drooling over the thought of being able to get this data from microsoft's servers or off of your hard drive too. This data collection isn't going to go away. It'll only get more and more intrusive and invasive. What little they let you keep locally they still push to get backed up to their cloud servers. The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can.

thewebguyd 1y ago
> That's just what it means to use windows. Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general. > The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can. Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing. When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.
MaxikCZ 1y ago
> They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences Two days ago I turned my home PC (win 10 ltsc) on and my login background was changed. I swear I will install linux the day it auto-updates to win 11

thewebguyd 1y ago

> That's just what it means to use windows. Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general. > The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can. Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing. When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.

MaxikCZ 1y ago

> They've shown for decades that they don't care about you or your preferences Two days ago I turned my home PC (win 10 ltsc) on and my login background was changed. I swear I will install linux the day it auto-updates to win 11