With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Privacy

Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by dspillett on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @01:18PM (#12306394)

> It may have _downloaded_,

Was it bright enough to reliably detect metered connections (did it even try at all?). If not then just this could have cost people money.

And consuming a couple of Gb of space could be a noticeable inconvenience on a small system (say one of the many tables and laptops with nothing more than a 64 or 32gb solid state drive).

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by AnkhMorporkian on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @02:23PM (#12307013)

If you marked your connection as metered, I believe it respected that and wouldn't download it.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by iotku on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:02PM (#12307925)

>If you marked your connection as metered, I believe it respected that and wouldn't download it.

I don't recall windows 7 having any way to explicitly mark your connection as metered.

As for Windows 8 (I believe it's the same as Windows 10), you can't mark a wired connection (ethernet) as metered if I recall correctly, even though you might be on a satellite internet connection for instance which most definitely is heavily metered.

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Re:With Windows 10, Microsoft Disregards User Choice and Pri... by AnkhMorporkian on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @04:04PM (#12307944)

I can't speak for Windows 7, but I believe you could mark an ethernet as metered in Win 8, but you definitely can't in Win 10.

Edit: I take it back, I was wrong. No ethernet metering. You can do it via regedit, but no way to do it from the UI.

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