from Hacker News

Windows 11 Sends Tremendous Amount of User Data to Third Parties

by benevol on 2/12/23, 11:47 AM with 14 comments

  • by nehal3m on 2/12/23, 12:03 PM

  • by kaetemi on 2/12/23, 12:07 PM

    So much data and they still can't figure out what their users really want.

  • by acd on 2/12/23, 12:18 PM

    You are the product in Windows 10 & Windows 11, Social media platforms like Facebook, Tiktok, Whatsapp and search engines Google. Your behaviours is sold for marketing products.

    You can most likely calculate how much your personal data is worth. Take yearly income statements from above companies and divide by platform number of users.

  • by qualudeheart on 2/12/23, 12:13 PM

    Why we use Linux.

  • by hestefisk on 2/12/23, 12:11 PM

    Has anyone ever done a gdpr request for MS based on their Win11 telemetry data?

  • by emsign on 2/12/23, 12:23 PM

    This is why you should want to block advertisers and trackers via DNS right at your DHCP server as a first line defense. Better safe than sorry.

  • by thevania on 2/12/23, 12:06 PM