Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euros in damages

Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by Hamuko on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:02PM (#26457291)

>Pre-installing windows, bundling software (including telemetry - long history of this) makes Lenovo money at the time of sale, and afterwards.

I'd use "spyware" instead of "telemetry" considering the shit Lenovo has done.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenov...

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by WarOnPrivacy on Sunday March 14, 2021 @04:09PM (#26458540)

Dang. Six years since Superfish fiasco. I must have been in stasis for some of that.

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by LilBytes on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:16AM (#26463061)

Certainly feels that way.

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by eecc on Sunday March 14, 2021 @06:32PM (#26460097)

Would you trust a preinstalled Ubuntu image from Lenovo more than a Windows one?

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by PotatoBoi on Monday March 15, 2021 @03:32AM (#26463390)

I mean you do have a point but on the other hand you aren't paying for that os so you could change it anytime (without litterally voiding money). It could also make more people start to use Linux which isn't bad .

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by forgotmypw17 on Sunday March 14, 2021 @11:08PM (#26462206)

Thanks for the laugh, I needed it

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Re:Refund of pre-installed Windows: Lenovo must pay 20k euro... by pydry on Sunday March 14, 2021 @02:41PM (#26457641)

Wow that's a whole new level of evil.

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