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by justabystander
3174 days ago
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> fork the project and remove the offending code Yeah, it's possible. And it will probably happen at some point or another, now that it's open source. But that won't stop the momentum of the core product. > Also historically, is /var/log any different from telemetry? I can easily figure out which applications were installed, what the hardware on the system is, which cron jobs were executed etc. Telemetry by definition includes the transmission of logged data. System logs may be collected and transmitted internally by an organization, though by default it is not. But pretty much everyone would be up in arms if a software vendor collected logs of not only what their own software is doing, but what other software on a user's system is doing. And that's the main problem with Windows telemetry - it's too invasive, resource intensive, opaque, and integrated for people to stomach. So they turn it off wherever they can, and thus starts this disgusting game of whack-a-mole with Microsoft. The dotnet cli isn't as bad, but Microsoft has earned some black eyes from the behavior of their other departments. So everyone's going to feel the heat until they learn too control their greed for data. |
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>And that's the main problem with Windows telemetry - it's too invasive, resource intensive, opaque, and integrated for people to stomach. So they turn it off wherever they can, and thus starts this disgusting game of whack-a-mole with Microsoft.
Ironically, its mainly the technical users who fiddle with all the knobs the OS provides anyway. The same technical users who write tech blogs, influence IT decisions, etc etc. Not having those knobs exposed for telemetry was a bad business decision on MSs part. I've managed to block it at the IP level when I installed W10, but I definitely don't want to be micro managing that.