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This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can.

The amount of MS telemetry is just mindboggling.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It freaks me out that it's sending what users are watching in real time, that's exactly Spyware.

[โ€“] AssPennies 10 points 1 year ago

I read about some smart tvs computing a hash of what's on screen to phone home about, in attempt with figuring out what content a user is watching when that content is 3rd party controlled.

We need some privacy laws up in this mother fucker.