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by fron 2470 days ago
Says the president of the largest spyware ("telemetry") distributor in the world
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"Please regulate the competition!"
True, but that’s because given their revenue model, this would impact them less than the corps which have embedded their tentacles deep into personal data of their users. Adtech is, by now, addicted to people freely giving up thief data and rights to their data.

Never the less, whatever happens when the elephants wrangle, it’s good for end users.

If you don't play by the same rules, you loose. What he says is that the rules need to change.
largest. Hardly. Google and Facebook wins clean on this one.
Whats interesting is that the DoD only uses windows machines even at the NSA. I think I might know where that telemetry might be going.
While I think the whole “telemetry” thing is overblown, there are enterprise editions of Windows that come with little to no telemetry. And I’m certain there’s custom builds of Windows for the government that have all traces of telemetry (to Microsoft) scrubbed.