Are NVIDIA proprietary drivers spyware? (lemmy.world)

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I was planning on upgrading to a NVIDIA GPU because of its superior ray-tracing capabilities. In general I don't trust proprietary software and the only proprietary applications I use reguraly are Steam and MakeMKV. Even being closed source, wouldn't we be able to tell if the NVIDIA drivers and/or software was collecting telemetry and phoning home? Are there any other concerns beyond that? Sorry if this is a dumb question.

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[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Installing NVCC caused this on my whitelist logs:

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