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submitted 8 months ago by TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.

And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won't change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn't fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like "Let's get everything set up for you", and "Let Cortana help you get things done!".

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

Absolutely disgusting! Literally the only reason why I still use Windows is the fact many games I play have anti-cheat spyware that doesn't work on Linux.

[-] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Yet another reason I stay away from any game that has online multiplayer PVP teams based setting. I trust anti-cheat as much as I trust that random file you find on [Insert Sketchy Website Link].

[-] TypicalHog@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

While I agree, I almost exclusively play MP games. (I'm just not very much into SP ones, idk)

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