Windows 10 Might Soon Track Absolutely Everything You Do for Your Own Good

[Aaron.Walkhouse]

Have fun with your 99% CPU usage and memory leaks I guess.

Actually, simple IP filters like Peerblock use well under 1% most times and is still under 5% when peaking.
I've never seen it leak either, and that's with over a decade of constant usage. ‌ It's efficient in all ways.

[Q91]

Have fun with your 99% CPU usage and memory leaks I guess.

Actually, simple IP filters like Peerblock use well under 1% most times and is still under 5% when peaking.
I've never seen it leak either, and that's with over a decade of constant usage. ‌ It's efficient in all ways.

I havent used it since 2006ish, but back then it was a fucking mess

[Tech]

Microsoft has a right to know what apps you use, just like any company needs to know for improvement..

Its only our interpretation what what companies collect is the problem. (eg. Cortana need to send voice samples spoken by user to server order to be useful, and it easier for MS to improve on a server, otherwise for the sake of privacy u'd have updates released more often every-time MS did a tweak.

My feeling, even with all settings turned off (which I don't think no one ever does because we still complain about tracking and MS) this is one of the first things I always do  after setting up Windows 10). In addition we are only doing this now because a cloud service is "integrated" into an OS.. *raises the awareness more*, as no one ever complained when we had an option to use OneDrive only from MS's website, but once something is in the OS, all hell lets loose, even though it's exactly the same thing. Microsoft still does local account, so the majority os users who have issues that are using OneDrive, log in locally instead..... turn off all those 13 pages of privacy settings in Control Panel, and turn of sending data back to help improve to MS

And if you are still worried after that, either go back to Windows 7, or don't use Windows ...

As i always say, You know more based on history than u can going forward..... Since all this only started after Cortana was introduced and OneDrive in Windows... It was never this bad before... and the reason is because its part of the OS now, gives users something to worry about.

That's all it is.

[dueda]

Microsoft has a right to ...

A good point as a whole, but a wrong start. Let's see:

- Depending on your jurisdiction, no, they can't pass court with that.

- Also, MS forces us to accept their terms or not use their products. Again, it may be illegal to request a citizen/company to give away their rights (and bypass the law).


- Isn't this the same as rootkit or keylogger, in a bigger scale?

But they make the operating system and, since PC makers mostly adopted their system from the beginning, we are stuck.
MS "evolved" the thing from Windows 2.0 (a multi-DOS task switcher) and 286-DOS (never released partnership with IBM) onto a monstrosity, just to catch us.

Obviously it is not really possible neither necessary to monitor everything billions of people do. It will be done in chunks (pun intended), sampling by social stratus, usage habits, purchase habits, porn profiles, uh... Isn't this privacy violation?

But in the end, we tought MS was bad, and what about Google? Android is doing in ten years what took MS more than thirty, and they aim much, much higher - I could safely say Goo learned a lot from history and intends to write a whole new chapter... Let's hope it won't end like Orwell.

[Q91]

Google is going to fuck us to the end of the earth... this year if Trump gets what he wants

[DelfDonger]

What the hell are you all talking about here? heh?
Grimey teenagers ://

[joew771]

I could actually use someone watching over me.

* joew771 installs Windows 10

[Tech]

It's their operating system,, they can do whatever they want...

The only true way is perhaps going open source, but then how do we know some clever person is more clever than open source people?

First thing i do, is disable all Windows 7 updates on a new OS, because my own security is better (or at least i like to think so)

[dueda]

It's their operating system,, they can do whatever they want...

The only true way is perhaps going open source, but then how do we know some clever person is more clever than open source people?

First thing i do, is disable all Windows 7 updates on a new OS, because my own security is better (or at least i like to think so)

My point too, but I would like to develop on the idea.

We have the right to have pen and paper and use those or any other tools. Society is sharing knowledge, tools, or else we could gather to hunt and let others rot and die for the rest, we wouldn't need writing and theater and law. I won't take we're destined to be lobotomized and herded by consummerism and say-so.

But open source failed. Linux was an accident and like that it may die without a central authority and a business drive.
Very few organizations survive without those.

My whole point being we cant exist without our tools and a balance of property and progress is at stake - Monopoly of any technology, OS's in case here, will lead to disaster in global scale. Big companies are sponging on wealth while home users won't benefit from open source. Check the licenses on many apps and servers.


Ubuntu, Cyanogen, and others, all failed. Without a group of well coordinated and funded people driving a new business model open system, its doom.
Start-up anyone? I'm out, I'm just a stinking leecher noob.

And about being safe, nothing is safe as recent news tell... Snowden, Meltdown, and many stuff we don't know of yet and probably never will.
Wanna be safe, run a 40-years old machine without any connection in a locked room.

[AncientRome]

I've tried DoNotSpy 10, it's not perfect but it's a start.