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Nvidia Adds Telemetry To Latest Drivers (ghacks.net)
An anonymous reader shares a report on Ghack: Telemetry -- read tracking -- seems to be everywhere these days. Microsoft pushes it on Windows, and web and software companies use it as well. While there is certainly some benefit to it on a larger scale, as it may enable these companies to identify broader issues, it is undesirable from a user perspective. Part of that comes from the fact that companies fail to disclose what is being collected and how data is stored and handled once it leaves the user system. In the case of Nvidia, Telemetry gets installed alongside the driver package. While you may customize the installation of the Nvidia driver so that only the bits that you require are installed, there is no option to disable the Telemetry components from being installed. These do get installed even if you only install the graphics driver itself in the custom installation dialog.Further reading on MajorGeeks.
Will it report the percentage of pixels that are flesh colored?
Installing nvidia has always been a bit of a pain in Linux, with each distro having their own way of packaging the closed source drivers. I guess even THAT is a feature in backwards 2016.
Obviously has tremendous influence over American companies so you know how this data is being used. These constant data streams are a wet dream for spooks and other bad buys, despite how benign the companies claim they are. You might as well put a beacon inside anything you own with a network connection, because that is exactly what this telemetry business is all about.
Not that we should ban telemetry outright, but in the very least, we should know what data is being reported.
For entertainment value, here's the Nvidia driver download page from 2001, with the driver weighing in at 6Mb.
Compare with 15 years later, driver is now 300Mb....
Software bloat at it's finest.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
Figure out what they are reporting, then set up a botnet to flood their servers with false telemetry. They will get sick of it quickly.
1. During installation, ask the user if they want to participate. Ensure that they will be able to view the data before sending it.
2. When $crap happens or something else you want to measure: open a pop-up asking the user if it's ok to send the data. Show the data on the popup.
3. If user clicks OK, new email opens with codified subject so it can be parsed automatically. Body of email contains said data. User inspects everything and hits send.
4. Corp mail server receives the email, parses the subject, and forwards it to the telemetry server.
So, this means that I need to replace my NVIDIA with something else.
It was fun while it lasted - good bye NVIDIA and fuck off!
I am 100% certain that they would only be able to collect only crash data from EU citizen, as anything else, including usage or even something as simple as the percentage of pink pixel would break privacy laws and the right of correction.
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Telemetry is also there to help product owners to determine which features of the software are used the most. It allows product owners to have a better understanding how their software is used over all.
I've always said English was my second language. Had Romeo and Juliet been written in C, I might have understood it.
The joke of flesh toned pixels is probably more of a reality than most of you think. Think of all the CUDA cores on a modern nVidia card. Why would you not assume with all of that processing capability and AI, that image recognition and OCR wouldn't occur??
Or will the driver not function without it?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
All this time I wondered what AMD could possibly do to convince me to try their video cards again. Now I know it was nVidia that had to do something all along.
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where is my freedom they fought ww1 and ww2 for ?
im not only not going to any parade , but i will no longer support any military , vet or such institutions that allow this and will refuse to buy nvidia
See subject: This is task scheduler driven in windows so cut out these entries there & poof/voila, it's gone:
NVidia Telemetry monitor
NVidia Crash and Telemetry reporter (2 of these are present)
(Each is GUID/SID marshalled (OLE type))
* Each time you update your drivers using the std. installer, this will PROBABLY have to be done (this is also the case w/ .exe's they used under %Program Files% in 64-bit & %Program Files (x86)% in 32-bit as well for nvtray.exe (if you don't like it, OR, NVBackend (can be disabled in tools like MSConfig start up area OR autoruns (far more comprehensive)).
(Personally on that LAST group, I go into the program files area & rename .exe files involved for 'geforce experience' IF you don't use it (I don't) along w/ DLL's those .exe files call functions from, but you have to be careful if you run STEAM games (bullshit imo, I like local diskbound games) there...)
Lastly - on updating a driver?
You don't REALLY need to use their std. installer - just extract it (goes beneath a NIVDIA folder & driver folder is what you use) & go to device manager & use it's properties page to update the driver (iirc, this doesn't install ALL NEW files, only strictly .sys driver related ones - feel free to correct me IF I am off here). This worked FINE for me going from build 375.63 to 375.70 current driver build.
Of course, you can also monitor what servers these things talk to w/ say, NirSofer's Network Latency View (or his other network tools) & block it by hostname (if it's done that way) OR ip address in firewalls too.
APK
P.S.=> In the end, this invasive spying is really, Really, REALLY getting "outta control" imo (well, not out of MY control or yours @ this point per the above)... apk
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How much they are pushing for people to sign up for the new GeForce experience with free giveaways and such, where it requires you to login; preferably with a social media account, it's not surprising that they are doing this. Someone told them there's money to be made by selling telemetry data, therefore, they are...
The thing about software like this, whether it be Microsoft, nVidia, or whoever, is that they have FULL access to your computer. Not just the current user, they have administrator access. They could, either by choice, accident or malice, send ANYTHING they want off of your computer. Tax forms, SSN's, bank account information, passwords, personal photos, etc.
That's fucked up.
Is there an alternative in AMD/ATI-World that comes even close to the performance of nvenc (no, vaapi/vdpau/opencl is not comparable, even on nvidia-hardware)...?
No mention of this when I purchased my card. Wonder how long before the lawsuit starts.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Basically just don't use 'GeForce Experience'. Honestly unless you're just one of these weird-os that can't live without social medial integration of your games then you can avoid all of this by not installing Experience. And honestly, why would any one?
Of course then this will only probably work until they make it mandatory, as these companies always try to do.
Installing nvidia has always been a bit of a pain in Linux, with each distro having their own way of packaging the closed source drivers. I guess even THAT is a feature in backwards 2016.
Its actually become easier to install, but harder to get to work if your machine doesn't support MTRR discrete mode (many Dells, and many Supermicro dual-socket server boards, do not). This led to the ironic situation where, because there is no BIOS option on my supermicro board to enable MTRR discrete mode, I either dig up ancient drivers that don't really work anymore for LInux, or I boot Windows when I want to do serious 3d stuff (whether its play a game, or whatever). GLXgears will run, but the moment you try to start celestia, blender, or anything else that uses opengl in any serious way at all, you get a "No opengl context" error and the program crashes. We know MTRR discrete mode isn't required (the windows driver works fine under the same constraints), so this suggests some real corner-cutting on the nvidia Linux driver side.
Oh well, once I get bored with No Man's Sky I'll probably put my Radeon card back in. It works great on Linux, with blender, celestia, and every other 3d app I throw at it. Nvidia, not so much.
I have a GTX 980, so I immediately RTFA and looked for the task they referenced in the Task Scheduler. FWIW, I did not find the task referenced in the article or anything at all related to nvidia. I have the latest driver package from nvidia installed. YMMV.
See subject & https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... depending on what you want to stop (telemetry, geforce experience, nvbackend autostart, & nvtray etc. - et al)
* I've been doing this for about a year on things other than this new telemetry (noted above) & yes, my games work fine.
APK
P.S.=> It works - as to your question, if the driver's using the IP stack to 'talk back to mama' that would cease its function (think about it) - I show ways to monitor for it in the link above... apk
At least you can instruct your router to block those packets.
For now.
I'm sure your new ISP provided router will automatically give priority for telemetry. Your data is secondary at best.
You could begin by countering his claim that white white porn is more prolific...
It amazes me that regardless of all the historical evidence, corps still keep right on thinking that they can pull this kind of shit off and end-users will be too dumb to ever notice.
No doubt nVidia will come up with some lame excuse about how its anonymized or that its just to improve our user experience or whatever, just like all the other corps that have ever got caught doing this kind of shit always do.
Just confirmed this on my own system. This telemetry is all a part 'GeForce Experience'. People should just uninstall that crap anyway as there's really nothing of value in that product anyway.
I use a PFSense box to block windows telemetry. Guess I will have to see where NVidia is sending data back to and add it to the list.
fuck you nvidia. captcha: gorgeous
Take that, Nvidia. I'm guessing some power user will outline how to block telemetry with WIndows Firewall / hosts file.
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Unless the task is running on the card and not in Windows.
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Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I can't seem to find any comments telling if it is implemented in the Linux drivers as well?
Anyway, as another poster as mentioned, I guess somebody will have to run tcpdump and see where it connects, then block those IPs, unless the driver stops working without it but I would doubt it since video would stop working on non-connected machines.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
Security is a bitch and we can't secure anything if we don't have complete control over the complete set of source code needed for each and every component including keyboard controllers, LCD controllers, graphics chips, wifi chips, and so on need to be released in full and not just an 'open source' wrapper around some proprietary firmware either (I'm looking at you AMD).
It's why I'm hostile to Lenovo, HP, Dell, Toshiba, Apple, and Sony (computers) as these companies implement digital restrictions in proprietary components (BIOS). It's why I'm hostile to Intel (CPUs backdoor'd), NVidia, AMD (not just graphics but also backdoor'd) for keeping everything proprietary and compromising my system's security. It's why I don't have an NVIDIA or AMD graphics card.
It's why I put my money into funding EOMA68 project (ThinkPenguin's the main sponsor and a crowd funding campaign was done here: https://crowdsupply.com/eoma68)- a modular computing standard which aims to open up hardware in the free software sense (even though they are also opening up schematics for boards it's the sources are what matter for individual components the most and modularizing ensures it's cheaper and easier to pressure component manufacturers to release code- whereas currently we have Intel or AMD for laptops for example EOMA68 is opening the way for non-x86 laptops with CPUs from other companies).
I read TFA and it shows telemetry for error/crash reporter. Not all telemetry tracking is bad especially in the case of crash reports to help them make their drivers better. One of the reasons why Nvidia's drivers are so much better (other than quality coding) is oodles of data from crash reports. If something nefarious is going then PROVE IT otherwise we have to give Nvidia the benefit of the doubt that it's telemetry data solely aimed towards error/crash reporting. Just because something says "telemetry" on it doesn't mean it's scouring your HDD and sending back all your habits. I would be more than happy to eat my words if it turns out Nvidia is actually doing something ethically wrong here... all someone has to do is prove it and the author of that article certainly didn't.
muahaha the perverts that work there want to know what dick everyone is watching
And maybe it's that there's the meme that there are more white women on cams, therefore more women taking on camwork are white. Maybe black women are told there's racism on camsites and don't bother setting up.
However, there does seem to be far more latino women than white on camsites.
maybe there's just no one reason and no leader in the causation.
Somethings things just happen, and we notice them only when they aren't what we're "expecting", then thinking that this is somehow relevant rather than just us looking for something out of kilter.
sorry i just laughing at you being so right
Yeah, no kidding. Just walking around in a public place here in the US, it's pretty obvious to me that, on average, it's the Asian women who are most attractive. Why? It's simple: how many fat Asian women do you ever see? They also seem to have an uncanny ability to not show any signs of aging until they're at retirement age.
this is all so stupid and way out of hand.... not only are these things actually illegal and immoral but it cuts both ways....if those jerk offs at nvidia are using windows 10 then another company is gathering all their info........oh but telemetry is disabled in win10 for business clients?..... then doesn't that tell everyone something... what is good for the goose is not good for the gander...... spy on nvidia or MS and you go to jail.....why?.....why don't they want telemetry used on them but they want to use it on you? do those jerkoffs who work at nvidia and MS have home computers....do their families....sons and daughters? what kind of world are they creating for their own........when you fuck everyone, you are fucking EVERYONE including your own.
send the fucking botnets their way.....why not? what is wrong with that?.....we are just trying to improve our experience....why can't we use telemetry same as nvidia.
i know i don't need to ask them permission to gather their info.....i sent invidia a letter saying "by reading this and allowing me to use your card you agree to let me collect private information about your company so i can improve how i purchase your products in the future, this includes but is not limited to placing root kits on your servers".
so i am fucking legal. surely they are not part of the tinfoil community and can appreciate my intentions. after all it was they who educated me on such matters.
fuck MS, fuck nvidia, fuck the USA and EU, fuck you, me, everything and everyone, fuck fucking everything and nothing, fuck this quantum mechanical simulation none of us asked to be born into. i mean like WTF already sons of god damn bitches.
which would contradict the article.
however this brings up a question about trustworthy computing.
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Is telemetry included in the linux driver?
You suddenly find £2,000 gone from your bank account and the bank blames you (as not in this Tesco case). You audit; you are up to date with all virus bashing software, etc, ... how else could your data have gone ? You then find that 'telemetry' is being sucked from your machine, Nvidia/Microsoft/... refuse to disclose what they have taken from your machine; they will not say how they protect what they have taken or who they share it with. Can you go after them ?
It sends info to Google Analytics.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
See subject: You only do so ONCE, & then use a diff. way to update the drivers I noted - ugh, I'll do it again:
Once you do all I noted disabling what you don't want running @ all via renaming (heck, deleting the .exe files alone would do it but I don't take chances & this is how I found it was recreating the .exe & .dll files using the normal installer NVidia gives you)?
Doing it as I noted makes it so you DO NOT HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN provided you install the alternate way I noted:
The std. installation package doesn't run fully, ONLY ITS EXTRACTION...
THEN, you use Device Manager & your NVidia card (via Display in the device tree) to UPDATE the driver - This worked FINE for me going from build 375.63 to 375.70 current driver build 2-3 days ago in fact!
Again, this DOES NOT UPDATE THE .EXE files & .DLL's they call or OLE marshall beneath 64-bit %Program Files%/%Program Files (x86)% for 32-bit...
* You really, Really, REALLY HAVE TO READ man...
(I cover all of this many times in my original post I gave you a link to & I've been doing this for more than a year now - it works & until they CHANGE it somehow? It should continue to do so...).
APK
P.S.=> In any event I also told of a way how to monitor (one way) for what it connects to as well!
HOW you do it what tools you use for monitoring is up to you... & yes, I covered BOTH potential communications blocking methods in either hosts (if done by hostname) or IP address in a firewall...
HOWEVER:
Then YOU HAVE TO GO THRU THE "MONKEY BUSINESS" OF MONITORING @ ALL IN THE 1st PLACE & it does NOT communicate all the time either (that is the pain in the ass, you have to catch it).
Doing everything I noted?
I avoid ALL of that!
(Still - It's up to you how you do it, I cover most any way possible)... apk
I just checked my Task Scheduler, and none of those Nvidia telemetry tasks identified by MajorGeeks have ever run. I've just enabled "tasks history" (i.e.: chron logs) from admin to see if it's actually doing anything. The tasks only appear when you run Task Scheduler with admin rights, so access is restricted to users with administrator rights. From the history, I think this telemetry might be in the works, but not running yet.
It's possible that since it is an admin task and I run in a limited user account (standard account), it's not triggering the task, but the tasks are supposed to be triggered by login of "any user," with a daily report at 12:45 on my machine if there's no login to trigger, so I can't see how that's happening. This all should be working, but it appears to be dead at this time on my machine with the latest drivers.
I do have GeForce Experience 3 installed, and it *is* asking for a login, however. So it seems they're tagging *something* to an account.
The GeForce forums are a shitstorm of "ditch the login" posts in every GFX thread. People are threatening boycotts, etc. It's really quite interesting. Here's the initial feedback thread when GFX 3 went live. Bring popcorn.
See subject: My methods STOP GeForce Experience, nvtray, nvbackend, this telemetry & more (a new install WILL redo them though & I warn of it too).
AGAIN (since you don't read apparently):
Renaming the .exe files involved (possibly even .dlls they marshall OR std. 'traditional' function call from)?
MAKES them crippled - depending on WHAT you want to 'stall', that is (watch it w/ STEAM stuff IF you use it though).
* Just about EVERY METHOD POSSIBLE is listed there in the post you replied to + "caveats" - So read it thru in full & see for yourself & then try them yourself... they all work (to one degree or another).
I've successfully done this for a year++ or so now, it all works (1 way or another as I listed several ways), depending on WHAT you want to stop in their std. install driverset program from reinstalling/re-enabling which is WHY I avoid it (I now beat it all by simply using Device Manager, Display, NVidia GeForce 970 GTX, Driver Tab, Update Driver, & update ONLY the .sys files etc. vs. all the other .exe & .dll files those exes marshall (& they do NOT reinstall that way either, the std. installer WILL reinstall them along w/ scheduled tasks & .exe/.dll + startup areas noted).
Of course after my comments on "our host" here (asshole)? I'll get downmodded from +1!
YES, I was-> https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
(LOL - Even when I write what works, out of "effete retaliation" by whipDOUCHE & his "Rubber Willy" dildo sockpuppet brigade, lol... losers).
APK
P.S.=> Of course, you're just another useless unidentifiable ac troll that "whipDOUCHE" allows to troll me but @ least I put out valuable working info. in my posts - YOU & "YOUR KIND", DON'T (probably whipDOUCHE the trust fund baby himself or his sockpuppets galore (yes, he has them) uses vs. me (he doesn't want his precious pennies in ads blocked), he's impotent vs. me anyhow for AGES now anyways as I CUT THRU HIS BLOCKS OF MY POSTS WITH EASE + I post once? He applies TOTALLY UNJUST 5++ hr. blocks on me (or so he thinks, as I always prove otherwise lol))... apk
I have a GTX 980, so I immediately RTFA and looked for the task they referenced in the Task Scheduler. FWIW, I did not find the task referenced in the article or anything at all related to nvidia. I have the latest driver package from nvidia installed. YMMV.
It is not a task, it is a service. If you found no NVidia processes, you either don't have an NVidia GPU after all, or you looked in the wrong place. There are three beneign ones you should have and two malicious ones you can kill.
Yeah, these tasks all run as a local user rather than SYSTEM, so when I log in with my standard account, the admin account that it's running under isn't logged in, and the condition for launch on any login is not met.
Error message:
Task Scheduler did not launch task "\NvTmMon_{B2FE1952-0186-46C3-BAEC-A80AA35AC5B8}" because user "[COMPNAME]\[ADMIN_USERNAME]" was not logged on when the launching conditions were met. User Action: Ensure user is logged on or change the task definition to allow launching when user is logged off.
This is par for the course with Nvidia software these days. Running a service as a local account? They should know better. ;)
typical sjw tactics displayed here
shout "oh look a squirrel!" and completely ignore the argument being offered
Yeah, but with Asian porn, the pixels are always so big ....
Have gnu, will travel.
Don't worry, you can get her occasionally on talk radio - all the Kellyanne Conway you love, without the faceparts you hate :)
See subject: Provide the BLOCKING IP ADDRESS then - good luck catching it (it's NOT always doing it)!
Besides - One of my suggestions WAS firewalls BUT THE "CATCH-22" IS ABOVE... no good minus that IP address(es).
My methods work (especially since you only do it once as you would a firewall rule, until they change those IP addresses that is - my methods stop the programs talking back to NVidia, period, permanently (using a diff. install method)).
APK
P.S.=> Whatever way you choose, go for it - only problem is YOU ARE NOT PROVIDING IT - I gave every possible for mine afaik (only 'theoreticals' but no "meat" for your sandwich)... apk
Lol, tell me what stations she's on so I can avoid them.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
According to the article, you're both wrong. They are scheduled tasks - like cron jobs.
You won't see them in the task manager unless they are running at the time, and you won't find them in the services list at all.
Check the control panel for the task scheduler or go c:\windows\system32\taskschd.msc - and disable the tasks. However expect them to be re-enabled next time you update :/
It's simple: how many fat Asian women do you ever see? They also seem to have an uncanny ability to not show any signs of aging until they're at retirement age.
Those are two of the reasons I'm married to a lovely Asian lady. Those two reasons alone cut 90% of the Caucasian women out of the running.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Do not have to search for Nvidia technical support. Technical support knows where to find you.
read the tfa :http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/07/nvidia-telemetry-tracking/
the actual log shipping is done via a schedule task
what are you using if not using AMD, Intel, or Nvidia?
Let's remember, the "argument being offered" is this:
"white women are just better looking than nonwhite women"
Exhibits A thru C:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
http://vuthasurf.com/wp-conten...
http://www.fashionlady.in/wp-c...
Exhibit D:
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/con...
Now which ones wouldja?
You are welcome on my lawn.
See subject: Crippling exes does it & update drivers via device mgr. (exes calling out don't renew) + All software firewalls don't do app level (Zone Alarm does, some router/firewalls do, Windows native one though? NOT iirc...)
That's "problem #1" for YOUR method & my method? You only do it ONCE...
Far easier than network monitoring for IP addresses or even hostnames (which again for most firewalls you'd have to do).
* Heh - I have to admit something (which you SUCCESSFULLY evaded, perhaps by LUCK or realizing it, lol):
YOU CAN GET THE IP Address seeing as you don't have it (lol) but...?
PROBLEM #2 for you:
I was "setting you up" for 'failure' since IF you manually triggered those task scheduler tasks? You'd have GIVEN AWAY information already (defeating the purpose), albeit IF only once... lol!
APK
P.S.=> See subject: However, "good job" (in a way) however, again - NOT ALL FIREWALLS WORK BY APPLICATION LEVEL ACCESS - so MOST FOLKS WOULD BE STUCK MONITORING & yes, giving out info. (if only 1 time) or waiting for someone to take the chance & put those IP's out (most work by hostname, as in many router/modem firewalls or by IP, or again, as windows' software model does, by IP address ONLY afaik)... apk
This is seriously a fucked up world. ... that don't bow down to US? Or am I delusional?
Why aren't these things regulated by law? Sure I know the US/Canadian government are all for this privacy invading activities, so it would NEVER happen, but I'd like to believe there are other countries out there that respect these kinds of things, right?
Operating System: Spyware (Windows 10)
Drivers: Spyware (Nvidia)
Cell phone: Spyware (Android/Google); Apps accessing cell-phone data/contact info without consent and uploading to their servers/ Image Geo Tagging/ Always-on microphones
Browser: Spyware (Chrome/Firefox(SafeBrowsing+Telemetry))
Computer applications (Spyware)
Webpages: Persistent Cookies/Canvas tracking
Televisions: Automatic Wifi connections without hardware disable switch/ Smart TV features; Voice search (recording)
Computer hardware: Intel Management Engine - can be run with computer being off, bypassing the OS.
Wow, a +2 vote for hate. Way to go slashnutter.
Bloated crap we don't need and loaded with spyware. Welcome to the GeForce Experience. Fuck Nvidia.
See subject: OR just do what I do once & be done w/ worrying about spying https://yro.slashdot.org/comme...
(To stop the calling exe files & libs as long as the driver installer & .inf etc. files DO NOT CHANGE)
&
Install differently as I noted via device mgr for update (easier & faster too) avoiding your method bloating on more, per the above, & network monitoring spilling info, even IF only once etc. ...
* :)
(Me? Well - you guys KNOW I don't "Bolt on 'MoAr'" adding bloat, more "moving parts" for breakdown OR exploit - I work with that I have natively 9/10 times, for security & yes, it works (ala APK Hosts File Engine 9.0++ SR-4 32/64-bit https://www.google.com/search?... ))
APK
P.S.=> I tell you, lol (this is to 'razz' you, but in fun only since you did get pretty clever (or lucky) & evade my 'logical trap' on monitoring by manually triggering those scheduled tasks to get the IP address): It's NOT EASY being "world-class" (like me)... apk
white women are just better looking than nonwhite women and that is reflected in the porn market
Maybe, or maybe white women are just sluttier.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lKCg...
Its not. I've got an nVidia card and I'd found the tasks before, but I'd assumed they were associated with geForce Experience (which I removed as soon as I discovered that they force a login even to just run the driver update -- which is the only reason I ever cared about that app in the first place.. I don't use shadowplay or game profiles or any of that other crap.)
I ended up having to use the DDU since the driver uninstaller crashed repeatedly, essentially giving me a full clean reinstall (sans Experience) when I was done.
And yeah after seeing the article I checked again and sure enough, the telemetry tasks were back.
Not sure about the people who claim to not see them.. Maybe there's some sort of A/B trial going on, or perhaps it was only in one specific version and they've already backed off on it, or maybe it only gets applied in specific hardware setups or who knows what else. But it definitely is (or hopefully by now.. was) a thing.
See subject: Remember when Windows had trouble in AeroGlass? That's a security one (Win32/GDI leaking too) so a driver update + MS patch help & of course, NVidia OFTEN touts speed increases (which are even better when you 'tweak' game or vidcard settings etc.)...
* There's a reason driver updates are recommended but in this case? DRIVERS ONLY as I noted & for ther very reasons in my subject above!
(Nothing else but the driver updated from from build 375.63 to 375.70 current driver build for me 2-3 days ago (& certainly no scheduled spying task OR GeForce experience, nvtray, nvbackend (all nullified via my methods noted here-> https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... which has gone up to a +2 'astoundingly', lol...)))
HOWEVER - as I noted in my post you JUST replied to? I'm concerned NVidia will get wind of what I do, & change the driver .inf & other install initiation files & change it to install all the other crap... I too, may be on my LAST update (I only have 1 new game, Doom 4 for PC (stupid steam shit I can't stand) & it flies (rest are oldies like Doom III my fav & Quake 4 (both 32-bit) but Hexen 64 & Doom 4 are 64-bit afaik here... so, I MAY be like you soon if they alter the driver install files).
APK
P.S.=> It's NOT easy - the "Burden of PERFECTION"'s on me with all the 'nitpickers' & trolls I dispatch here daily, lol... apk
Are you using the 375.70 drivers?
no editing allowed, so easy way to remove the tasks from the task scheduler
And how do you guarantee that the manufacturer hasn't added the odd extra circuit that wasn't in the base design? I guess if 3D printing gets advanced enough that you can print your own electronics.. but then you still have the compiler backdoor issue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdoor_(computing)#Compiler_backdoors if the printer was built to recognize certain designs and modify them as it was printing. So now you have to build your own 3D printer (and it has to be advanced enough to print electronics.) And then whatever you used to build that has to be analyzed and so on until you're basically starting with a warehouse full of raw materials and thousands or even tens of thousands of hours ahead of you that you can't contract out because you can't trust other people to not build in back doors either. And THEN you have to somehow guarantee that you did everything perfectly and didn't leave any accidental flaws or the whole exercise was for naught.
Obviously those attacks are getting rather complex at that point, and its certainly a lot easier to trust a self-printed circuit created from an open design than it is to trust Windows or any other corporately-controlled system. But at some level, even going to all that trouble still leaves theoretical security risks.
And finally you then use your perfectly secured machine to check out Slashdot for the first time in 4 years after building your own browser because you don't really trust Firefox either, and simply sending and receiving the minimally necessary packets is supplying every router along the way with at least a bit metadata about your location and actions.
At some point, you'll eventually have to accept that risk is a thing and manage it rather than trying to eliminate it, because the latter is very close to impossible. The only true way to guarantee that your computer isn't sending out some sort of information is to turn it off, unplug it, smash it, and move its remains somewhere far away from you just in case its got some embedded RF chip or whatever that you didn't manage to smash.
To be honest, I just put that last pic in to give the ACs nightmares tonight.
You are welcome on my lawn.
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It would be nice if AMD could write a driver for the latest kernel. Steam works fine on Mint 17, yet fails on Mint 18. That is enough to make me look at Nvidia again.
There are beautiful, sexy women in every country on this planet, and their color has nothing to do with it. My personal favorites are from India and Sweden.
You need to expand your horizons a little bit and open your eyes. You're missing so much in life.
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Caucasian, or Caucasian American?
From what I've seen, the Caucasian European women don't have such a problem with obesity. And they generally are healthier, which does translate to holding your looks longer. The main problem with these women is that there just aren't many of them on this side of the pond.
FWIW, I've started dating a lovely Asian lady too. It's really a breath of fresh air... and I'm not just talking about the physical attributes. Asians just seem to be a lot more sane and calm and rational than white American women, and also have more realistic expectations.
If the hardware can do it but I need 300 meg of software crap to flip the switch and turn it on then thats bloat...
It could also be that porn is mostly produced in the western nations (I guess Russia too), and those nations have a large white population, which means statistically speaking, you're going to have more white actors than not. Unless you set out to have more of another ethnicity or something.
Also wtf does this have to do with driver telemetry?
I give zero consent to this spyware, yet it's enabled by default.
My computer or its data is not for data mining. Somebody sue these fuckers.
From what I've seen, the Caucasian European women don't have such a problem with obesity.
I think this is true in general, but overall I think Asian women have an edge genetically. I've traveled around SE Asia somewhat and by and large, Asian women just aren't fat. It's not just diet, because this seems to apply to most of the Asian women in the US and Canada too, from what I see.
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FWIW, I've started dating a lovely Asian lady too. It's really a breath of fresh air... and I'm not just talking about the physical attributes. Asians just seem to be a lot more sane and calm and rational than white American women, and also have more realistic expectations.
^^^^This, times 1000.
I couldn't agree more- they're saner, less self-centered, and more partner-oriented. In contrast with American/Western women, Asian women actually seem to like men and don't view them as a "problem" or the embodiment of everything wrong with the world. Most American/Western women seem to view a relationship as a constant competition, not as a partnership.
Yes, I'm generalizing, but my generalizations are based on literally decades of dating American women. My Asian wife thinks so differently from most American women that it's startling. Nearly all of my friends married to American women are jealous of our marriage and relationship and they're not shy about saying so. Practically all they do is complain about their wives, when most of what I do is compliment mine.
Am I biased? You bet your ass I am! :)
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"Caucasian" my ass. There are only two types of women: European Aryan women and inferiors.
Get back in your basement, goober. You've never touched a woman in real life so your opinion is worthless.
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