You still don't get whats the point, and likely you'll never do, I think I dont want to waste my time again to explain the obvious fort the 1000th time
Oh, how great news!! For all the w$ slaves, I mean. How about that company shares the same with other subsidiaries and so on. Enjoy and share your privacy by the hand of m$. No wonder why Satya Nadella was chosen as the #1 this year by Fortune. They are selling data now, the OS is just something from the past.
...Sorry for this post off but where are the threads of MSMG TOOLKIT, MSTOOLKIT,SIMPLIX.... AND OTHERS? GONE FOREVER?
Glee give them time, last I heard, Mods 47,700 threads to add, will take time, hold on to your knickers, could have been much worse
there is an easy way to spoof all the collected harvested personal data: just create a multitude of spooks, fake profiles, faked identities, home baked cookies and logs etc.... you can create automated scripts to generate pure gibberish and if millions of users did this, the collected data will be absolutely worthless!!!
There's no good answer here. Unless you write your own OS and isolate yourself from the internet, there will always be people trying to profit from your web experience. The only plausable solution is for those 'in the know' to teach the rest of us how to minimize what gets taken. Then, it costs them money in R&D to figure out how to retool their spying tools so that they can bypass our 'exploits'. And we keep playing 'the game'. It costs them money...it costs us nothing. That technique is what all but killed shareware. A developer releases a shareware product and spends the rest of its' life cycle building a better form of copy protection.
Your post made me wonder who stands the most to gain from attempting to trash the forums. And the first thing that comes to mind is Microsoft. Just my 2 cents.
I won't speculate, but it's a possibility, albeit a remote one. Corporations have done far worse in the name of profits.
Why would Microsoft do that? There is a lot of threads in this forum which are in the good interest of the Redmond software giant. Saying it is Microsoft that is responsible for the deleting of threads in the forum is not correct from a reasonable perspective.
I just kinda threw that out there. I agree, I suppose no one would try to trash the forum from a "reasonable perspective."