Re:The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
by funnyThing7 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:54AM
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Not the authorities perhaps, but it is already happening in some degree: Windows Defender sending “samples” or unknown binaries to the cloud to analyze them. I am extremely bothered by this and try to disable this “feature” as much as possible. As always with Windows, you have to aggressively tweak system settings to permanently disable the constant reminders “Oops we have detected suboptimal settings, please turn on every privacy invading feature for your convenience”. We can only hope MS doesn’t abuse the samples for other purposes, but given their and other big techs track record, we can assume there are additional parties interested in the submissions.
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Re:The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
by fsflover on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:36AM
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If you are tired of fighting with your own computer, consider switching to Linux. It's been working flawlessly for years for me.
Re:The All-Seeing “i”: Apple Just Declared War on Your Privacy
by funnyThing7 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @07:48AM
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I am certainly considering it every now and then. Already use it for main desktop usage. And I hear good things about Proton, but I really like ease of usage of Windows for everything gaming related. It somehow reminds me too much of my working job, when trying to figure out how a certain game needs to be started in Linux.