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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by codedokode on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:35PM (#17382661)
Microsoft itself is collecting a lot of telemetry even in Basic configuration [1], for example, if you use UAC (privileges elevation popup) they collect "the full command line arguments being used to elevate.". Also they collect a lot of hardware identifiers (including IMEI - unique phone identifier that allows to track it) so later they can reliably prove that some user was using this computer at this time. What a nice feature.

They also collect information on files that are " part of an app and either have a block in the compatibility database or are part of an anti-virus program.".

How can we trust Microsoft after this?

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/basic-level...

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by NiveaGeForce on Saturday June 23, 2018 @03:23PM (#17382909)
Do you rather trust arbitrary 3rd party Win32 apps, that have free reign to crawl your whole user profile and mess with the integrity of your system?

If you're already on Windows 10, at the very least embrace UWP to get some control over your privacy.

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Re:Filezilla installer is suspicious again by smichel17 on Saturday June 23, 2018 @11:29PM (#17384781)
> If you're already on Windows 10, at the very least embrace UWP to get some control over your privacy.

This is reasonable. And, at this point it's important to note that the first comment in the chain advocated for moving off the platform.

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