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

[shankly1985]

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

https://www2.nvidia.com/en-us/privacy_policy/

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"

Ness

 

[shankly1985]

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=30179052&postcount=6780

Sorry but what good is it this being hidden inside the driver thread?
This rubbish deserves its own thread so more people can see it..

This madness that nvidia is forcing upon its user base is just adding another check box ticked why I dislike this company.

 

[shankly1985]

Except the AMD link you posted is about their website, not the drivers package. Try harder

Some times I wonder if some stick their tongue out when a load gets dropped.

You were saying.

That is just site monitoring LOL
Sure AMD will monitor what drivers are getting downloaded, What version of Windows for example is more people download them for.

We collect several kinds of information from you, depending on the part of the Site being visited. For example,

We collect personal information from you when you register for a forum or newsletter - So they know my Email address and password I used to Register nothing out the norm there.

download products such as drivers, register products with Us - Just normal monitoring of products and services

create a user name and password, provide feedback, send email enquiries or participate in another part of the Site.

Nothing out the norm there either.

Now lets look at the difference with Nvidia!

The software is sitting there on your PC monitoring and sending information without you even knowing about it LOL How is me going onto a AMD site once to download a driver worst? When you have these Geforce always running!!!

Read the Reddit, it monitors and sends information on Websites and system information

According to the article
a detailed description of your hardware is sent a few minutes later to gfe.nvidia.com/getsugar. This description includes: brand and model of your motherboard, serial number, BIOS version, information regarding USB drives currently plugged, RAM capacity, GPU frequency, etc....
GeForce Experience will communicate the software you use (not only games), when you use it, for how long...
record where you click on the various utilities provided and how long you stay on each page. Almost 100Ko of information, along with Google trackers, are sent to Nvidia.
This is clearly a breach of your privacy. Nvidia's privacy policy does not mention these activities in the French version, only in the English one.

(1) Identifying what games you play and what hardware you use, and then positioning themselves as the advertising middle-man for targeted ads inserted into the GeForce experience. They might be planning an F2P ad-sponsored gaming platform, which they can sell to both game developers ("you have an ARPG; we can deliver 100,000 players who regularly play those games") or for advertisers ("we can insert your ad into the games of 100,000 players").
(2) Monitoring your activities in great detail, selling that information outright to game developers ("we can give you extremely detailed information, even including Facebook data, about the types of people who play the game you're offering or planning to develop").
(3) Monitoring user data, and then using that data as competitive leverage ("collectively, GeForce 1080 users spent 1,000,000 hours on your game last month - if you want your future games to be well-positioned for our user base, you'll incorporate Nvidia-specific marketing or technical features and refrain from supporting AMD...")(1) Identifying what games you play and what hardware you use, and then positioning themselves as the advertising middle-man for targeted ads inserted into the GeForce experience. They might be planning an F2P ad-sponsored gaming platform, which they can sell to both game developers ("you have an ARPG; we can deliver 100,000 players who regularly play those games") or for advertisers ("we can insert your ad into the games of 100,000 players").
(2) Monitoring your activities in great detail, selling that information outright to game developers ("we can give you extremely detailed information, even including Facebook data, about the types of people who play the game you're offering or planning to develop").
(3) Monitoring user data, and then using that data as competitive leverage ("collectively, GeForce 1080 users spent 1,000,000 hours on your game last month - if you want your future games to be well-positioned for our user base, you'll incorporate Nvidia-specific marketing or technical features and refrain from supporting AMD...")

 

[shankly1985]

Bet shanks has been slapping the ham for hours over this , being able to take so many digs at nvidia from his high horse.

This is all pretty normal, practically every service collects data, really nothing to see here.

Just posting the news, while giving my fair share of opion on the matter..

If it's nothing to see go and tell everyone on the reddit forum that because it's quite big you might be there for awhile. Best get going!!

Again like other service Facebook for example only tracks stuff when you visit the site, once you leave the site you done..

This is a different matter its something that is always running back end of your pc monitoring your activity etc

Big differences

 

[shankly1985]

It's the fact this is always running.. It's got nothing to do with advertising say from using Google Chrome, when you go looking at a monitor from say ocuk and then go onto Facebook and see that Monitor displayed do you think that is Facebook? Because it's not lol it's your web browser how do you think Google, YouTube, Twitch make cash?

Again the big issue I have with this is the fact it's always running on the system, monitoring Personal user information..
Greg you only need to look here and on reddit to see nvidia users are also very mad at this. It's got nothing to do with AMD.