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Re:Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 ... by sophacles on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:15AM (#33507761)
Why do you want to spy on me to begin with?
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Re:Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 ... by Firmwarrior on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:26AM (#33507948)
It's pretty funny actually. Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

"Oh, only 1% of users are hitting this one!" (Reduce priority, ignore, automatically close for "zero bug bounce")

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Re:Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 ... by vezycash on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:35AM (#33508094)
>Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

And they remove necessary features then lie, "Our telemetry suggests that people don't use those features."

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Re:Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 ... by noasaservice on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:24AM (#33507909)
That's simple. After they fired all their beta testers and QA department, MS converted all non-business Windows OSes to be 'automatic-and-irrevocable-opt-in'.

Well, and it's also some of the richest user datasets. Google is doing it. Apple is doing it. Amazon is doing. So why not MS? It's not like we have hard privacy laws in this country!

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