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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by slededit on Sunday November 06, 2016 @04:32PM (#12887156)
On my last box I found the AMD drivers were injecting a DLL into almost every process - including the brand new program I was in the process of developing.
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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by brokenmachine on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:28AM (#12889005)
Can someone ELI5 what injecting a DLL does, how they did it, and what they might have been using it for?

I know with my old Nvidia drivers, you can add extra icons for window management to every window (move to next monitor, etc). Would this be using DLL injection?

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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by 0xcde4c3db on Monday November 07, 2016 @10:57AM (#12892000)
I've seen Nvidia drivers do that too. I think it's mostly done to let the user override graphics settings that are otherwise hardcoded into the application's API calls.
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Re:Nvidia adds telemetry to latest drivers by imtringued on Monday November 07, 2016 @02:30AM (#12889481)
You can uncheck Plays.tv/Raptr/AMD Gaming Evolved during the installation or uninstall it after the fact. It's seperate from the drivers.
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