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Privacy & Anonymity with Win10?

I log in with a local account. I have a MS live account that I only use for the Store and for downloading Office.
 
I don't do social media, have a $10 ZTE Nokia knockoff for a phone, rotate/disable email accounts for all the online crap and even I have installed 10. Yes I have disabled Cortana and gone through the privacy options. You have no privacy no more anyway - a drone can wipe you off the face of the earth raining Hellfire if the US wanted to and Five Eyes have already data mined you by now even with a minimal online presence.

Oops I've just been flagged :awe:
 
When upgrading from 7 to 10, I did not create a Microsoft account. Did the last part manually and de-selected every option about sharing data and letting Microsoft "customize" or "improve" my experience.

Now, whether that really helps anything is questionable. But hey, I tired.
 
That's the problem with "free". It's never free, there's always a catch. Microsoft is selling data to marketers to recoup the cost of giving away all those licenses. That's the new reality of "software as a service" model. This is certainly one of the worst cases I've seen of it though. Worse than when Ubuntu shacked up with Amazon.

OS X and iOS have some of the same issues. Which is why I turned Siri and Spotlight Suggestions off. Though I don't think OS X is as aggressive about it. There's certainly not 13 things to opt out of. The only way to ensure privacy is to use a privacy centric Linux distro, or never go onto the internet.
 
I'm just gonna stay Win7 as long as I can. Does 100% of everything I need/want, it's fast at all of it and no privacy concerns.
 
mmntech said:
That's the problem with "free". It's never free, there's always a catch. Microsoft is selling data to marketers to recoup the cost of giving away all those licenses. That's the new reality of "software as a service" model. This is certainly one of the worst cases I've seen of it though. Worse than when Ubuntu shacked up with Amazon.

OS X and iOS have some of the same issues. Which is why I turned Siri and Spotlight Suggestions off. Though I don't think OS X is as aggressive about it. There's certainly not 13 things to opt out of. The only way to ensure privacy is to use a privacy centric Linux distro, or never go onto the internet.
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Meh...so MS knows who my friends are (they already have my xbox live friends) so Cortana can give me updates on birthdays or special events. Big deal. Oh and maybe there's some ads placed inside a few apps I'll never use and never see. Big deal.

TheSlamma said:
I'm just gonna stay Win7 as long as I can. Does 100% of everything I need/want, it's fast at all of it and no privacy concerns.
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That's what you think.
 
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