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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by lotsofpulp on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:50PM (#26117803)
Microsoft can earn more money this way (selling data for sales purposes), so their behavior meets my expectations.
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by sorokod on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#26118013)
Mine too, it is hilarious that they present this gratuitous data sharing as "this is normal/we are the victims as much as you are"
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by moron4hire on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:22PM (#26119207)
But they aren't selling the data
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by sorokod on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:27PM (#26119259)
On the off chance you are not being sarcastic, do you think that Canonical got the data for free?
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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” by Hawxy on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:11PM (#26120825)
Yes? Its pretty evident that when you publish a marketplace app, the details of those that installed it are automatically stored for use by the vendor. All of the statements above align with this, unless you're insinuating that Microsoft are liars.
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