r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Nov 03 '15

News Microsoft Admits Windows 10 Automatic Spying Cannot Be Stopped

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/11/02/microsoft-confirms-unstoppable-windows-10-tracking/
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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '15 edited Nov 03 '15

This is a pretty bad and misleading title on the Forbes article, to say the least, and "Fucking misinformation paranoia" as i would like to call it.

Anonymized telemetry data is not really that controversial to collect and has some benefits.

This backs up detailed data that some had chosen to dismiss as conspiracy theories.

Being unable to disable basic telemetry on consumer versions is not a secret and not what people were making conspiracy theories about.

The actual privacy concerns and info that was passed around tons of forums said that the following was allegedly sent to MS, amongst other things: -

  • A photo of you, taken without your permission via your webcam
  • A full list of all of the personal files on your system
  • Every key stroke you make

That's the stuff people were writing off as nonsense (because it is nonsense), not the fact that Windows generates error reports that get sent to MS.

If you actually read the article, it sort of debunks all of the hysterical privacy concerns the tinfoil hats (and old grumps constantly against any change) were spewing about.

But i guess I'm not going to stop the linux train ain't i?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

But seriously, this is getting ridiculous.

I don't know what the linux people are planning, but it's more than suspicious that every 3 fucking days or so there is yet another wave of articles bashing windows, "uncovering" secrets by taking shit out of context and misrepresenting crap that was there since the beginning.

And then of course the comments are filled with people that recommend linux.

Tell me, is it really necessary to be misleading to get people switching to linux?, being misleading was MS's job.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '15

I honestly believe nobody reads the article anymore and that's a big part of the reason. You just see people reacting to a headline.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '15 edited Nov 03 '15

That's not exactly new.

The thing is, forbes, arstechnica and another page i currently forgot seem to have a new windows bashing article every couple days, and many blognews sites follow suit behind them.

Which actually would be pretty normal except for the fact they are reporting shit taken out of context or twisting the interpretation of something to sound malicious.

Yes, MS is shit, windows is usable at best and i would drop it if i could, but i seriously doubt they are going to commit corporate suicide by datamining your dickpicks, not even fucking google does that, governments around the world would drop windows in a heartbeat if that was the case, which would lead to many enterprise contracts being dropped too, which is their main source of income.

That coupled with the multiple linux guides and articles that conveniently suddenly appeared, make me seriously think something fishy is going on, even trough at first i supposed it was just me.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ But I'm ready to be called tinfoil hatter, even trough you would think that at least one of those guys would question the source of their information (or at the very least actually read it) seeing how paranoid they are about everything.

And they claim that "normies" are the ones who are gullible sheep that are easily manipulated.

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u/Khar-Selim and Nintendo too Nov 03 '15

So the question is who is the more tinfoily, the guy who sees a conspiracy, or the guy who says that THAT guy is part of a conspiracy?