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Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by bdcravens on Monday October 31, 2016 @12:39PM (#12838440)
The fact that such hacks (which really aren't known beyonds developers) are necessary makes a very loud statement.
Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by stouset on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:40PM (#12839048)
No, the few things these switches are toggling are nanoscopic in the grand scheme of things, and the data sent are only that necessary to implement an ostensibly useful feature.

Compare to the shit that Windows 10 collects, and the comparison isn't even remotely close.

Re:Microsoft is now a braver, more innovative company than A... by eridius on Monday October 31, 2016 @02:13PM (#12839419)
They're not necessary at all. They're available, but really you shouldn't care about them unless you're very paranoid. These settings are basically the equivalent of telling your computer "I don't ever want to search the internet unless I manually navigate to google.com (or whatever) and do the search there". Because that's what you're doing, you're disabling the internet-enabled search functionality.