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What you call "nutty" I call "a dial-up Internet connection" or "a congested network due to streaming content or large downloads." If Win10 only did this while
by striking 11y ago
What you call "nutty" I call "a dial-up Internet connection" or "a congested network due to streaming content or large downloads." If Win10 only did this while the entire network is guaranteed to be idle, and if it can guarantee it is on a landline DSL or better connection whose usage isn't tracked, then it would be okay.
But it's highly unlikely that Microsoft can make those guarantees. If this were a robust system, people (especially Microsoft!) would be championing it! But it's clearly not.
- Silhouette 11y agoIf Win10 only did this while the entire network is guaranteed to be idle, and if it can guarantee it is on a landline DSL or better connection whose usage isn't tracked, then it would be okay. In any jurisdiction where you can in practice be held responsible for any data uploaded from your own Internet connection, it's still not OK to upload anything automatically without permission.