> and was actually trying to make stuff better for users
Now, if we're talking about making communication between users better than yeah you need to go beyond email. E2E, open protocol, something like jmap (imap sucks), focus on privacy and interoperability, yada yada, so many better stuff to "fix" before trying to amplify my inbox and adding more rendering issues between platforms. Do you see a trend? You're now treading a thin line between chat apps, social networks, Android instant apps and glorified iframes. And introducing a whole new set of problems at the same time, not to mention the monumental effort required for something like this to keep backward compatibility (just so you can still call it email and use the superset). And getting the implementation right the very first time.
I too want the worst problems of using email to be solved but since nobody wants to adopt open protocols and work with each other (or eee the whole thing a year later), like history showed us time and time again, it won't happen. So again, let's at least no lose what we have now.
(Sorry I'm a little tired so my writing is bad)
Maybe it's fine if email is not central to your life or business but if there's even a, let's say, 10% chance of my emails not getting delivered to Mr Google I have no other option than to bend the knee.
Since everybody else does it now MS, from a competitive standpoint, also has to be a creep with your data. But they own the OS and I don't want that bullshit there.
You can go with the "it was a bug" narrative about all the privacy settings getting reset, saying that the tool showing what they collect is enough, that not being able to pay to stop the data collection is ok (if they "really" have to collect data to be competitive), well for me it's shady business and I don't want my OS doing that. Just tired of this subject to be honest, here's more info if you want to dig deeper https://google.com/#q=Windows+Restricted+Traffic+Limited+Fun...
Once again a matter of trust (or not wanting ANY data to be sent, a radio silent OS aside from updates and features that actually require internet access and you opt-in on using them). Would be trivial to lie about the data in the UI. I don't know if it's possible to intercept the data for analysis, so people can verify that it matches the UI.
> Regarding businesses: I do think you can disable all of that using group policy in Windows Enterprise
Nope, even the Security setting still collects data.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/manage/con...
Even worse for people that are forever locked to Windows because of their line of work, clients or something else. They have no option, they can't even pay more to stop the data collection. Not to mention HIPAA and other problems that may affect small business owners.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyllyukko/user.js/master/u...
user_pref("network.http.referer.userControlPolicy", x);
// TODO: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/issues/94, commented-out XOriginPolicy/XOriginTrimmingPolicy = 2 prefs
user_pref("network.http.referer.spoofSource", x);
user_pref("network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy", x);
I choose Google one day randomly blocking my account over losing it to some random person from the web. At least I can make a blog post and try to make to HNs frontpage to get some customer support.
I just hope Treble will allow us to install a signed stock ROM (custom ROMs don't count in my book) on any device so all that matters is the hardware and customer support.
Maybe the annoyances are from the lack of a core desktop experience/"interface" (not talking about GUI) that feels familiar (especially for new users). I bet it also scares developers from other platforms and commercial initiatives. I'm all in for freedom but a "default stack" is desperately needed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7oxiae/i_had_to_us...
And YouTube. And Search. Hangouts, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Groups, everything else? I don't buy it for a second that it isn't on purpose, even with the polyfill justification.
You only make it easier for people like me to continue ignoring Chrome (if I even needed more reasons).
This might be outdated but it's in the Control Panel or Action Center somewhere (Security and Maintenance area?). https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/networking/2010/12/16/di...
I'm also using this simplewall option:
> Enable boot-time filters – Prevent data leak during system startup, even before "Base Filtering Engine" (BFE) service starts.
> Simple tool to configure Windows Filtering Platform (WFP)
So much better than anything else I tested. Easy to import/export rules (XML) and there's also portable mode and advanced options (that goes beyond the simple UI you can see in the image).
Since Glasswire 2 didn't solved long standing problems I have with it I'm looking for an alternative. Would be better if there was an open source alternative.I want to be able to whitelist applications and block everything else by default, basically a better frontend for the Windows Firewall.What do you think about https://tinywall.pados.hu? Does it send data back (telemetry)?
