Windows Telemetry Rolls Out

Posted by samzenpus on Monday September 7, 2015 @07:13AM from the here-it-comes dept.

ihtoit writes: Last week came the warning, now comes the roll out. One of the most most controversial aspects of Windows 10 is coming to Windows 7 and 8. Microsoft has released upgrades which enable the company to track what a user is doing. The updates – KB3075249, KB3080149 and KB3068708 – all add "customer experience and diagnostic telemetry" to the older versions. gHacks points out that the updates will ignore any previous user preferences reporting: "These four updates ignore existing user preferences stored in Windows 7 and Windows 8 (including any edits made to the Hosts file) and immediately starts exchanging user data with vortex-win.data.microsoft.com and settings-win.data.microsoft.com."

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Re: Oh, they're a big company, by cfalcon · 2015-09-07 12:48 · Score: 1, Troll

Given that there are fucking tutorials on how to stop the ads, and you don't know why you DON'T see them, it's reasonable to assume that:
a)- They exist
b)- They aren't on YOUR box for some reason.
c)- Since you can't tell him how he got them, nor did you link how to disable them, you don't really know what you are talking about. For all we know, you won a fucking coin flip at install.