Jim8EL Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Yup, Windows 10 has basically gone the way of smart phones. Lack of privacy is the price you pay for instant targeted info. For example, I use gmail and google calendar at work. When I have an appointment my android phone alerts me when it is time to leave the office while taking into account my location, and traffic along the quickest route.
Windows is even worst in my opinion, because you really have to search to find out what it's doing with your information. There are ways around most of this snooping, but it requires a quite a bit of effort on the part of users to protect themselves from Microsoft.There are some pretty good tutorials on the web about what you should do if you don't want to let M$ into your house. And it's not just M$, if you use chrome browser with a gmail account, you've already given up the keys to the kingdom
You can also download a 3rd party firewall to block a lot of this phoning home stuff. Tiny Firewall is a pretty good frontend to windows firewall that basically works from the principle that everything should be blocked unless you explicitly let it through. Additionally, In windows go to "Privacy" under "Settings" and turn off a bunch of settings like Cortana, Location etc. Also use a local account NOT a microsoft account with windows 10. Of course quite a few windows "features" will no longer work but we've gotten along without them until now so who cares.
J
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