That's an utterly poor excuse for allowing big corps to milk your data for cash.
It's got nothing to do with nothing to hide. Its about Google, FB, and now Microsoft, trying to milk and mine your data to generate cash.
Windows 10 was basically rammed down people's throats under the guise of being "free" using the GWX deployment virus, the truth is that nothing is free and you're just paying for it with your data, it's not an operating system anymore, its a virus. FB is only worth billions because all your data belongs to them. Microsoft et al are now competing for more data market share.
This is why new directives such as GDPR are being brought out, they don't promote privacy, they erode it. All it does is relinquish your rights to your data and gives the data mining corps the explicit right to use your data as they please. Most of the big buttons on the new popups are "I accept all data collection" lol.
Same as the old "Privacy policies", there is nothing about privacy policies which is on the side of the consumer for goodness sake, they're just saying hey we will milk your data and you cant do nothing about it. Cant believe how brainwashed/mind controlled people are.
Holy thread revival Batman!!!!
I had to re-read my post to get back on point:
That's the thing, you don't have to, at all. Out of the box Windows 10 is fine for probably 90 odd percent of users, in business or home environments. The tweaks we are dabbling with are simply because we are "overclockers" - as in, we have a keen interest in IT/Computing/Operating Systems/Software/etc. Others that may use these, are people who are security conscious, and don't believe that Microsoft have their best interests at heart, and wish to block some of the guff.
But, again, for the masses - people may not actually care that Windows 10 is phoning home; the old adage of 'nothing to hide' applies to most I guess. For me though, I like to fiddle around in whatever o/s I have (not Linux though, urgh), and apps such as this SpyBot one are more of an interest than a necessity to me.
Ok...
That's an utterly poor excuse for allowing big corps to milk your data for cash.
It's got nothing to do with nothing to hide. Its about Google, FB, and now Microsoft, trying to milk and mine your data to generate cash.
It wasn't really an excuse, I was trying to suggest that for most people (who don't wear tin foil hats or like to tweak things) the phoning home functions of, say, Windows 10 - aren't an issue. Regardless of what the collected data is used for.
Face it, data on us is a goldmine for the companies you have listed, as they can then sell your information onto advertisers, or develop their own systems to deliver 'focused' adverts - it's big business!
Windows 10 was basically rammed down people's throats under the guise of being "free" using the GWX deployment virus, the truth is that nothing is free and you're just paying for it with your data, it's not an operating system anymore, its a virus. FB is only worth billions because all your data belongs to them. Microsoft et al are now competing for more data market share.
Not sure if it was actually rammed down your throat - it was dangled like a carrot, I never once found a single device (corporate or personal) where the Windows 10 update *just* installed; yet I am aware of claims out there were people have said that 10 installed without their say-so; which I really am dubious of - it's more likely they clicked a popup without reading it correctly. I love how you consider GWX.exe as a virus though
As I recall, it was an Update - issued via Windows Update (you know, that well know malware and viral hub!!!!); granted, I considered it akin to a great big pop-up taking over my browsing - very intrustive and a pretty under-handed tactic. But a virus? Get real fella.
I can see from the rest of this paragraph, that you are probably a regular buyer of bacofoil or the like...
This is why new directives such as GDPR are being brought out, they don't promote privacy, they erode it. All it does is relinquish your rights to your data and gives the data mining corps the explicit right to use your data as they please. Most of the big buttons on the new popups are "I accept all data collection" lol.
I'll hold my hands up here, and admit I know naff all about why GDPR came about - I suspect it was more likely that with the ever changing landscape of the digital world, the previous guidelines were too simplified and didn't cover everything. I very much doubt that GDPR came about because of Windows 10
One thing that has been good from GDPR, is that you now get popups for cookie approval - and for the sites that don't have a 'Reject' option - I simply close and find whatever I wanted elsewhere.
Look - people are idiots. By and large, they are idiots, and need their hands held. As the years go on, and more and more idiots are churned out by schools and colleges, and more and more new demands are made by these idiots (safe spaces and whatnot) - these idiots then wade into whatever the hot new tech or app is; without appreciating that the Ts & Cs they are happily clicking past, likely informing you that everything you do will be collected and owned by Google/Apple/GlobalMegaCorp!
Same as the old "Privacy policies", there is nothing about privacy policies which is on the side of the consumer for goodness sake, they're just saying hey we will milk your data and you cant do nothing about it. Cant believe how brainwashed/mind controlled people are.
You're naive if you think that corporations are for the good of the people - they're not, and probably never have been; business is all about making profits - be that through selling for a £1,000 phone, or collecting all of your data and selling it onto goodnessknowswho.com. But referring back to my previous statement - people are idiots and can't be bothered to protect themselves, they blunder blindly through installers and whatnot - and then have a moan when they discover their data is being mined.
Let us take Windows 10 as an example - the first version (1507 or whatever it was) was very very keen on you picking the 'express setup', hoping to appeal to the average idiot, as that would leave all the tracking bells and whistles on. After the adverse publicity on tracking, the latest version (1803) still tries to tempt you down the "don't worry, we'll set it all up for you, you can trust us" - but if you do brave it and go down the self setup - there's a stack more options now.
Now. Me personally, being in IT and an ex-overclocker, still don't trust the o/s with all the tracking turned off - so I turn to some of the suggested tools in this forum; but again - I even doubt those. But you have to draw a line - do you sit around paranoid, tin hat on, telling people on the internet how they're all out to get you and your data. Or do you think "I want to use my PC so meh". There has to be a point where you accept that your digital footprint is going to be tracked somewhere along the line - be it within your operating system, or on your favorite web page; you either accept it or take yourself offline.
. The only problem here is that I have been using disk cleanup and windows updates for almost two decades, and I have never had as many issues pre-win10 rollout. Problems with windows update have gone up by 100,000% in some cases and Disk Cleanup is slow as ever and I wish to get people's thoughts on why it's gotten like this.