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NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It

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https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...elemetry_to_latest_drivers_heres_how/d9mw9f0/

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Heads up for anyone that cares about this stuff.. Me personally I think its a disgrace. Why should they share your personal information? end of the day all you want is the driver software to work on a product you spent cash on "ALREADY"

:mad: Ness
 
Me, I don't care about this stuff personally. It's just how things are now. If you use facebook I'm sure you'll see adverts popping up from other sites you've visited recently, amazon ads appear if you're viewed something recently, car manufacturers, shed suppliers......even shed suppliers can use these new tracking ads.

I just buy stuff when I need it.

Also seems to me that at least Nvidia are informing you. When I look at sheds I don't expect to find their advert following me around (they never told me!) but now if I see Nvidia adverts on facebook I know why and they've at least explained it.

As for phone numbers, not received any calls yet.

Big data!
Think this stuff is happening anyway but not all companies tell you about it.
 
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kipps90 said:
Just remove Nvidia GeForce Experience to resolve this.
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There are reports that the telemetry is now part of the driver package and not the Geforce experience package... I don't know if that is accurate or not.

There are also reports that these telemetry modules data mine your entire system and watch literally every last thing you do.

Facebook and the like stinks, but you can choose not to use it. You can even choose not to use Windows... though for gamers it's not a good choice at all. But even within Windows you can go through all the settings and turn most of it off via options MS actually give you and also lets not forget that MS made Windows 10 stupid cheap pretty much on the proviso that they'll make money from selling data rather than from selling the OS. IE it went from £100 to £10, subsidised from selling data.

Did a 1080 go from £600 to £200 on the proviso that they'll sell your data to make the £400 back? Premium products usually offer less downsides... not more. You have free software that has ads or premium version with no ads. Paying through the teeth with higher than ever margins to Nvidia only to have them turn around and change the drivers to now decide they should profit from your personal information?

How many 1080 buyers KNEW this would happen when they spent anything from £600-800 for a card? Is it fair that you buy a card for that much and then now find the driver program has changed entirely?

Utterly, utterly disgraceful behaviour and business practices from Nvidia... nothing new but this is pretty much a new low even for them.

Regardless of platform you need drivers, hardware companies have exactly zero business to sell you hardware then during it's life decide to add such software to their drivers.
 
What's the chances of some clever people being able to strip these out of the driver package or even just release the driver without all the other software?

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Agree with the above, this is something you understand or even expect from free services but not a high end product like GPU's. If this isn't easily disabled and a one time only thing not something I'd have to do after every driver update I won't be buying nvidia.

Do you think you could just block all nvidia stuff through the firewall?
 
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ive checked the majorgeeks link and dont have any of the telemetry entries in the task scheduler. no sign of anything suspect. only have base drivers and physx packages installed.
 
Finners said:
What's the chances of some clever people being able to strip these out of the driver package or even just release the driver without all the other software?

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Agree with the above, this is something you understand or even expect from free services but not a high end product like GPU's. If this isn't easily disabled and a one time only thing not something I'd have to do after every driver update I won't be buying nvidia.

Do you think you could just block all nvidia stuff through the firewall?
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easily.

my eset is setup to tell of any app connecting to the net + everytime the DNS/ip changes.

had a few from NV without geforce exp. i stopped them
 
smogsy said:
easily.

my eset is setup to tell of any app connecting to the net + everytime the DNS/ip changes.

had a few from NV without geforce exp. i stopped them
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Same here - always run an external firewall that is setup to alert me and ask for permission any time an app tries to go online - Nvidia drivers have been trying to go online for ages and I've always blocked it
 
It's part of the drivers only now so for people that didn't want to install the GE now get this rubbish too. To disable it delete the scheduled tasks that it adds. I noticed it right away.. what a joke from nvidia ... seems next card back to AMD at this rate. . Tired of nvidia and their silly pricing games, poor drivers recently,lies and now this .. seriously they are taking the micky now.
 
Finners said:
What's the chances of some clever people being able to strip these out of the driver package or even just release the driver without all the other software?

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Agree with the above, this is something you understand or even expect from free services but not a high end product like GPU's. If this isn't easily disabled and a one time only thing not something I'd have to do after every driver update I won't be buying nvidia.

Do you think you could just block all nvidia stuff through the firewall?
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Its quite a pain to do - GFE 3 causes several problems for me so I did similar just to stick with GFE 2 on newer drivers but there are so many circular malware like enforced update functions/services, etc. its quite complicated to do :| nVidia are taking way too many liberties with their customers.
 
This was soooo predictable. :p
I can't help but think that they will be collecting data on what the majority play and optimize for those games.
 
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