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It's a valiant effort, but you're navigating a privacy minefield. Even if you find/disable all the known things, a single windows update can introduce a new opt

by kardos 11y ago

It's a valiant effort, but you're navigating a privacy minefield. Even if you find/disable all the known things, a single windows update can introduce a new opt-out "feature" that undoes it all. Your effort might be better spent migrating to a less invasive system. "Today we were unlucky, but remember we only have to be lucky once – you will have to be lucky always."

kijin 11y ago
Well, I guess it's inevitable as long as I'm using a proprietary operating system. I don't expect Apple to be any better. Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of. At least if I get Windows 10 Pro, I'll be able to turn off non-security-related updates.
- kardos 11y ago
  > Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of. No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-out, and last year they finally fixed it [1]. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...
  - danieldk 11y ago
    Are you sure? IIRC the last LTS version I tried (14.04) still has Amazon search on by default.
    - kardos 11y ago
      Actually, no. That article was dated Mar 31, 2014, so I assumed that they switched the configuration option by 14.10. .... but some searching indicates that they won't get around to disabling online searches by default until Unity 8 is default in Ubuntu. It seems that Unity 8 won't be default until 16.04 [1] or later [2]. So I rescind my previous statement. Canonical deserves as much scorn as you can dish out for disregarding their users' privacy for 3 years and counting. [1] http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ [2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-Unity-8-by-Default-the-Community-Will-Decide-480129.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-U...

by kardos 11y ago

kijin 11y ago

Well, I guess it's inevitable as long as I'm using a proprietary operating system. I don't expect Apple to be any better. Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of. At least if I get Windows 10 Pro, I'll be able to turn off non-security-related updates.

kardos 11y ago
> Heck, even Ubuntu nowadays comes with ads that you need to opt out of. No longer true. Canonical took a lot of (deserved) flak for making that feature opt-out, and last year they finally fixed it [1]. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-product-results-opt-unity http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/03/ubuntu-make-amazon-produc...
- danieldk 11y ago
  Are you sure? IIRC the last LTS version I tried (14.04) still has Amazon search on by default.
  - kardos 11y ago
    Actually, no. That article was dated Mar 31, 2014, so I assumed that they switched the configuration option by 14.10. .... but some searching indicates that they won't get around to disabling online searches by default until Unity 8 is default in Ubuntu. It seems that Unity 8 won't be default until 16.04 [1] or later [2]. So I rescind my previous statement. Canonical deserves as much scorn as you can dish out for disregarding their users' privacy for 3 years and counting. [1] http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ http://mhall119.com/2014/10/unity-8-desktop/ [2] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-Unity-8-by-Default-the-Community-Will-Decide-480129.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-16-04-LTS-Won-t-Have-U...