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Leave Windows 11 Idle For 24 Hours, It Sends Over 3000 Telemetry Pings To More Than 100 Different Servers. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Boy, the good ole days are gone when it comes to Windows. I am posting just to help anybody that doesn't know. This is like a creepy wire tap. If you are actually using Windows 11, make sure to disable and or reduce telemetry in Windows 11 (Privacy). If that actually helps, I am sure there are more ways they send data back but the video link is a simple how to for the telemetry. Here is more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wtg_s1GQiMU

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

What do you mean the good old days of Windows? When does it been doing this for decades bro.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I used to sell pcs at Sears back the day. There was this one weird family I sold a 486DX to and the wanted just one more peripheral..a scanner. You could return entire pc purchases at Sears up to 3 years later depending on how loud you'd yell... Us sales guys would lose the commission and we were straight commission those days so I got into pcs by keeping my stuff sold. They had to have a scanner and I went out to support ... Every trick in the book with himem and config..memory optimizers ... Couldn't get that IRQ .. all my tech buds tried too. Finally I gave them a free (pre release cus we had it for weeks) copy of win 95 all set up - because it could assign all those resources effortlessly without one text file. Windows wasn't always purely evil.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Windows XP was the best for me.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip -1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Dude in your hilarious if you think Windows XP wasn't sending out telemetrics as well.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That being said I'm impressed with Linux Mint.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That being said I like Ubuntu for my smart tv that's a old IMac

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

It's probably very snappy on it.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Not as bad, I didn't even use the internet on XP anyway. I was a poor boy, from a poor family...