[MBCook]

I see telemetry as fundamentally different from the kind of data that you want to use to push advertising to people.

[_jal]

There is no clear line to be drawn between the two, and it really depends on the use to which the data is put, something that's opaque to end users.

Sure, error reporting feeding in to a QA database is one thing. But is there the capability to target Win10 OS ads to, say, folks with old video cards? I'd be very surprised if someone in Redmond didn't think of that.

[yuhong]

That being said, I do believe that currently SQM is separate from ad tracking and crash reporting for example.

[imron]

So you think the telemetry is not going to help with things like this? https://www.extremetech.com/computing/245553-microsoft-now-p...

[sp332]

They seem to have sent that to everyone, so there's no targeting, and telemetry won't make a difference.

[yuhong]

And even if it did it would be probably separate from for example SQM.