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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by millstone on Friday June 01, 2018 @08:17PM (#17211694)
Microsoft products are becoming worse on privacy:

1. LinkedIn's dark UI patterns are as bad as they've ever been. Bringing the same to GitHub or otherwise LinkedIn-ifying it seems like a very real risk.

2. Ramping up telemetry. Key loggers in Windows 10, opt-out telemetry in .NET Core, seems impossible to get VSCode to stop phoning home.

This is the stuff we very badly want to avoid.

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Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks by amf12 on Friday June 01, 2018 @09:06PM (#17211952)
1. Agreed.

2. (Windows 10) Isn't that only in the technical preview versions? Or is the keylogger in the release versions too?

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