Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by scholia on Friday March 10, 2017 @12:07AM
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You are, of course, absolutely correct. I suspect that's not going to be a very popular approach ;-)
Re:Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising
by tedunangst on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:55PM
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Microsoft is evil, therefore I should change every setting to whatever the opposite of the default is!
Most of those guides degrade security, not enhance it.
Some gems I've read[0][1]: Disable Smartscreen, Disable Windows Defender, Disable or Delay Windows Update, Block Time Synchronisation in the Hosts file, Disable Biometric login, Disable driver updates, Disable Secure Boot/TPM Chip, and Disable UAC.
This is the Dunning–Kruger effect[2] all over. Most people who "know better" would never write such a guide; or the guide would just tell you to flip a half dozen switches in the official Settings -> Privacy UI and Cortana -> Settings UI, rather than disabling key security features. But longer more detailed looking guides are generally more popular in spite of being completely wrong/bad practice.
[0] http://www.pcworld.com/article/2971725/windows/how-to-reclai...
[1] http://bgr.com/2015/08/05/window-10-privacy-settings-how-to-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect