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Even With Telemetry Disabled, Windows 10 Talks To Dozens of Microsoft Servers (voat.co)
An esteemed reader writes: Curious about the various telemetry and personal information being collected by Windows 10, one user installed Windows 10 Enterprise and disabled all of the telemetry and reporting options. Then he configured his router to log all the connections that happened anyway. Even after opting out wherever possible, his firewall captured Windows making around 4,000 connection attempts to 93 different IP addresses during an 8 hour period, with most of those IPs controlled by Microsoft. Even the enterprise version of Windows 10 is checking in with Redmond when you tell it not to — and it's doing so frequently.
Ubuntu is worse, actually. Not only does it send searches, but each individual library or package can phone home to a different developer with different information collected about your system. When something crashes, the crash dump is automatically provided to the developer. This even occurs with browsers like Firefox, which can reveal what you were doing with the browser at the time of the crash. There are packages in GNOME and KDE that exist for the sole purpose of reporting back private data when a crash occurs. It's a bad situation on Linux, and unlike Windows, virtually none of the software contains a privacy policy. The GPL sure won't protect against things like this. There's also more incentive for Linux software to monetize user activity because, unlike Windows, there generally isn't a revenue stream from people purchasing the software. It's actually worse on Linux.
It's a Microsoft operating system, and by installing it you agree to their EULA. You have agreed to all this. MS can do what they want as they own the machine you run it on - end of story. The only way out is to use a.n.other OS. But you will not.
> How does, say, Ubuntu Linux compare to Windows 10?
GTFO FUD PEDDLER
Ubuntu has an option that can be turned off for ONE fucking search menu. And they are removing it due to negative feedback.
And if you give even a tenth of a fuck about this trivial to delete, soon to be removed default USE FUCKING MINT INSTEAD.
Or Debian, or Fedora, or Arch.
Ubuntu is just one of many Linux distributions. If you don't like something they do, move the fuck on.
LOL, oh look, someone with a tiny penis and no brain with too much time on their hands.
Does your mom know you're using the internet again? Or is she still off banging the neighbor's dog?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Yeah, I really hate it when the system goes out of its way to patch several hundred vulnerabilities before the black hats are able to add the computer to the borg collective. It's just HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE I say!
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.