“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script

Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by kenjackson on Saturday January 07, 2017 @02:30PM (#13346063)

What's the problem with telemetry in general? For almost all of the important products I use I like to send usage info -- my expectation is that they're more likely to improve features that I use as a result.

And if you use a web app, e.g., Google Apps, they get all this data plus more (and completely not anonymized).

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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by RhodaLs on Saturday January 07, 2017 @08:35PM (#13347733)

The biggest part of the problem is not being able to turn it off. I don't think most people would be bothered by the basic telemetry if this was an option for non-enterprise / education users.

That and not being able to see what it's sending out. I recently took a close look at the Privacy control panel on my iPhone. Not only does it give the option of turning off telemetry and ad data, but it also shows you exactly what is being sent back to the mothership.

This is what Windows 10 needs.

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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by criddell on Saturday January 07, 2017 @09:04PM (#13347823)

That's fine and I have no problem with telemetry being enabled by default. But there are lots of reasons users might want to shut it off.

A big one is that some people are on metered connections and that telemetry can cost money.

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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by tux1968 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @11:44PM (#13348322)

Don't want any extra network usage when i'm connected to my cell phone hotspot and using up my monthly data cap.

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Re:“Reclaim Windows 10” Powershell Script by cobalt on Sunday January 08, 2017 @01:28PM (#13351129)

windows has a 'metered' mode for network connections. I don't know if this will stop said usage, but you could check

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