In my two month test run - Win 10 is not ready for prime time for what I need to do with it. It will get there but I am in no rush to install it now. Sonic
All of the things that you mention can be blocked by the user , but it requires a fair bit of effort , and I get the fact that for many folk it is just too much work , so acceptance ( however reluctantly ) becomes their only realistic option. What M$ have done with W10 is vastly different in so many radically varying ways. And it can not be "Tweaked" out , by anybody , no matter how skilled they are , or how dedicated they are to preserving their right to privacy ! W10 offers me nothing that I could possibly want that I don't already have. It's like comparing apples and oranges ....if you can't stand oranges , then why buy them . FWIW , I don't use a smart phone , I use an extremely " dumb" phone , and I always will .... I guess that makes me a " Luddite" .. ha ha ! It makes calls and receives them , and that is all I need from a phone .... "Techno Bling" has zero appeal to me , even if it were given away free . When I use the internet there is NOTHING about me that " leaks out " without me giving it the OK first. .... Strict firewall policies , port monitoring etc. And as for Google , they were totally excluded from every aspect of my life many years ago. Just saying .... it doesn't have to be the way you describe unless you choose it to be so . Season's Greetings to all !
What about the option of not telling them who you really are? After all, I am not really Captain Kirk.
That was only possible when the outcry for the use of local accounts was "allowed" again. If we were all forced to use Microsoft accts as per Win8 - they would know exactly who you are. Unless your Microsoft account is completely bogus too... Sonic.
I use gmail and I don't give them any private information. It's what I call a through away account. They always want my phone # and want me to join their cloud. Not going there. There are no email address's in there that are my private ones. The only thing that they can track on me is ISP and emails sent to me from MDL and one other site. They can have fun with that all they want.
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It's really adorable that people think that Windows 7 hides their identity better than Windows 10. The last version of Windows that did not give you up was 3.1 Unless you are driving 3 towns over and stealing someone else's WiFi, the government knows who you are and what you are doing online. I use 2 layers of VPNs and have no illusions about actually being anonymous.
I laugh out loud. If you can't fix it, you gotta stand it! When you dance with the ten Devil, He doesn't Seven completely different (as yet) Invisible between the RFC:791, if I can be bothered. I like that! h ttps://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc791
Well, that's not my problem. If Hoover wants to stockpile my porn, sure. It's not my tax money after all What I don't like is that Win10 is a botnet. It acts like a FTP server by distributing updates to other users, and who knows how long it will take M$ and crew to figure out how else botnets can be used. Now that's MY components and MY electricity, so they can f*** off. Not to mention all the removed features in Win 8+...
Now I am at a loss here?? You don't feel anonymous on 2 layers of VPNs. So why do you even bother with them? And if your a paying customer, would that not be a waste of money??
Nothing hides your identity better than safe surfing habits. That, coupled with a clean OS, keeps the idiots out of your machine. Yeah...fun with modems. I don't think that TCP/IP was even invented yet. I do computer work for the local businesses around me. So, I hop around. @Gharlane00: Isn't that like putting on 2 condoms before having sex? It's not about what's being sent. If my recording studio machine does an automatic install of Windows 10, that would really screw things up for me. On a computer dedicated for tinkering, it wouldn't be a problem, because I'm already tinkering. As far as Windows 10 privacy issues go, I'll worry about them when I install and tinker with Windows 10. By the time I do that, I'm sure that the good people at MDL will have it locked down tight as a drum.
The VPNs keep the non government entities out of my business. I don't do anything that the big boys need to worry about, but that does not mean they don't look anyway.