On: Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' contro...

[phendrenad2]

I tire of this never-ending slander against Windows as being "spyware" when those saying it can't be f*ked to even prove their own point. "It makes HTTP requests" is the latest laziest slap-in-the-face low-effort "attempt" to prove this. Yawn. Personally I like Windows 11 and am amused by people like this.

[ninjagoo → phendrenad2]

So what's your theory on why a fresh Windows PC needs to connect to all these 3rd parties at all?

[NayamAmarshe → ninjagoo]

Premise:

- Microsoft is a good corporation.

- Microsoft will never break your trust because of the above point.

- Microsoft is old.

- Microsoft can never do wrong.

- People who dislike spyware are criminals.

[phendrenad2 → ninjagoo]

There isn't enough evidence to make a decision, and your insistence that a decision mist be made despite limited information, when no one seems interested in getting better information, is frankly bizarre.

[ninjagoo → phendrenad2]

> no one seems interested in getting better information

Because there is already enough information here. It's a "Personal Computer". There is no reason (that is in the best interest of the PC's "Owner") for it to connect to "Data Research" 3rd parties with a fresh install of Windows.

[phendrenad2 → ninjagoo]

Funny how the goalpost always moves from "prove that they're sending meaningful tracking data" to "just prove that they're connecting to a 3rd party".

[ninjagoo → phendrenad2]

I think I've been quite consistent in asking why these 3rd party connections are being made at all, and saying that they are not needed.

[phendrenad2 → ninjagoo]

If only the goalpost would stay right there...