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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Another reason why Linux is better. Microsoft's shady ways of sending back data. Make sure to disable Telemetry in services and others if you still are on Windows. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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If this isn't a reason to switch to Linux, I don't know what is! I should have posted this sooner, just in case if it helps. This should piss you off as much as it does me. More shady ass ways data is being sent back to Microsoft. You have to switch off all kinds of shit! I assume you might know this already. But, just in case you are still on Windows and don't know. Next, you also can go to the recovery tab and select take no action, just in case Windows tries to re enable it after a Windows update. Also, turn off the telemetry setting in settings shown in photos. There might be more that I don't even know about.

It also stores your search history!

Who knows what required data they are sending!

More garbage.

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[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago

nah i'm already more of a *nix guy than windows. but i still have numerous things that work better with windows. my main laptop runs slackware and my desktop freebsd.