Quidsup keeps it real in regards to Microsoft's spying in Windows 10.
On 16 January 2016 at 17:38, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
Quidsup keeps it real in regards to Microsoft's spying in Windows 10.
He talks about the photo viewer app sending usage stats. Meh. I do usage stats sometimes.
Then he talks about Bing sending search information to MS. What he doesn't mention is until recently Kubuntu was doing exactly the same thing!
Before Unity 8 Ubuntu/Kubuntu was sending search history to Amazon to target ads at you.
Ubuntu was only sending search history and it was easily opted out. Next version won't default to sending Amazon search history even.
Microsoft seems to be sending a lot more information on many more items, to a complex network of obfuscated domain names. Not good.
On 01/17/2016 06:01 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
On 16 January 2016 at 17:38, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
Quidsup keeps it real in regards to Microsoft's spying in Windows 10.
He talks about the photo viewer app sending usage stats. Meh. I do usage stats sometimes.
Then he talks about Bing sending search information to MS. What he doesn't mention is until recently Kubuntu was doing exactly the same thing!
Before Unity 8 Ubuntu/Kubuntu was sending search history to Amazon to target ads at you.
Is M$ using the stats for marketing? Probably so. Do I use the M$ tool for images? Rarely ever. Is this an OS thing? Probably not and more an app thing but let's not go there because we don't know so we will blame the OS all the time.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
Ubuntu was only sending search history and it was easily opted out. Next version won't default to sending Amazon search history even.
Microsoft seems to be sending a lot more information on many more items, to a complex network of obfuscated domain names. Not good.
On 01/17/2016 06:01 AM, Paul Hill wrote:
On 16 January 2016 at 17:38, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
Quidsup keeps it real in regards to Microsoft's spying in Windows 10.
He talks about the photo viewer app sending usage stats. Meh. I do usage stats sometimes.
Then he talks about Bing sending search information to MS. What he doesn't mention is until recently Kubuntu was doing exactly the same thing!
Before Unity 8 Ubuntu/Kubuntu was sending search history to Amazon to target ads at you.
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At 09:38 2016-01-16, Kevin Cully kcully@cullytechnologies.com wrote:
Quidsup keeps it real in regards to Microsoft's spying in Windows 10.
Thank you. I have submitted this to the RISKS List.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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