I fully expect Windows to ask permission, then just send the data anyway.
Windows telemetry has 2 options when you first install. Full telemetry, or minimal. Notice there isn’t a “no” option.
I can’t find the source, but I remember someone comparing full telemetry to minimal telemetry, and found that minimal was about 90% of full. So not exactly minimal.
How about fuck you and get that AI the fuck off my drive.
Is there a button for this? Cuz I found a git script to do that. Although in all fairness I won’t be using it since I don’t plan on getting windows 11. Go ahead and kill Windows 10, my next move won’t be “oh how wonderful! Let me invest in Windows 11!”. It is already a “never again. Get off my HDD already”.
It’s profoundly disturbing that wasn’t what they originally had intended to do by default. I don’t see how anybody can trust people who have to be forced to do the right thing to keep doing the right thing. I’d expect them to just try to sneak it back in later when the focus has shifted. Clearly they see no fundamental moral or ethical issue with it - or they simply don’t care.
Suuuuure, the buttons toootaly aren’t just a fancy trick to placate people while it still sends shit in the background.
For now
Occasionally for now
Lol
With how much app functionality has moved off the local box in recent years I have to wonder when the first major corp will say fuck it and fully wipe MS from their environment. Maybe they’ll rethink their ‘we own your computer’ mentality then.
