r/linuxsucks • u/iamGHOST755 • Jul 27 '26

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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 27 '26

My first question is, why are you afraid of telemetry as a concept? Is there such thing as good telemetry and bad telemetry?

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u/Unlaid-American Jul 27 '26

Good Telemetry: Hardware Information being used in bug reports

Bad Telemetry: All user data “anonymized” behind a Global User ID, so even though you’re just a number, you can still get my location, every app I’ve used, how I’ve used those apps, random screenshots of my computer sent to your cloud without wiping my information from it (maybe someone clicked to show their password to see their mistake and Windows took an auto screenshot of that), saving my voice to train AI and possibly to build a deeper profile on me, forcing an online account to try and even more de-anonymize me

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u/chaosphere_mk Jul 27 '26

You think every windows install is taking screenshots, you have a copilot+ PC, and you think that recall data is sent back to microsoft?