[tossedaway334]

My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").

[sz4kerto]

Spyware and telemetry are not the same. Do you really think they are exactly the same?

[CaptSpify]

Unremoveable software that is using my computer in ways I don't want it used? Yeah, I'd call it the same thing.

[aarongolliver]

"Unremoveable" by all definitions but the dictionary one.

[CaptSpify]

Really? So tell me how to remove all of their software, and make sure that it doesn't come back to my system. I'm not even being sarcastic when I say I'd love to see proof that it can be done.

[aarongolliver]

You can't provide that guarantee for any software that can update itself, Ubuntu could turn it back on tomorrow. This link shows you how to remove it now, I'm sure people give up on updating guides like this in the future.

Currently it is possibly and easy to remove telemetry. And it only takes a few clicks to disable auto-update for Windows 10 by setting your wifi to metered, and a Google search to set your ethernet to metered.

[CaptSpify]

Possible and easy?

I have to tweak the registry via shitty scripts like this one. Thats the opposite of how an OS should work

[khedoros1]

How about "software that is using my computer in ways I don't want it used, inextricable from the software that I require"?

[AmVess]

Yes, but the post is about Windows 10, not Linux.

[UnoriginalGuy]

My Ubuntu install has telemetry. It also defaults to sending information to Amazon.

[chrisper]

I am pretty sure they removed that default in the new versions of Ubuntu.