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Re:How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) by ross-life on Saturday January 09, 2016 @05:46PM (#10873195)
Telemetry in a specific product? Fine.

Telemetry in my OS* that has access to everything? No.

* That I cannot turn off.

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Re:How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) by frik on Sunday January 10, 2016 @10:26AM (#10875582)
Exactly. This is why Win10 is so bad. You simply cannot deactivate the telemetry at all (as an end user)!
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Re:How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) by Aleman360 on Saturday January 09, 2016 @07:34PM (#10873560)
A modern OS is nothing but a bunch of apps and the kernel. Most of the apps run in sandboxes.
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Re:How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) by quanticle on Saturday January 09, 2016 @07:03PM (#10873450)
What if the OS is the product?
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Re:How Optimizely Almost Got Me Fired (2014) by ross-life on Saturday January 09, 2016 @07:34PM (#10873558)
An OS is a product of course, but to me it's on a completely different level to "just" an application product. It has access to everything, I want to be able to trust it and know exactly what it's doing. Telemetry I can't turn off ruins that. Having it is fine, just let me turn it off...

I like Windows and really like VS, I was often literally the only (non-VM) Windows user in a sea of OS X at several offices but Windows 10, the flip-flopping UI, the ads, and the telemetry pushed me to Linux and building my own desktops.

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