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Microsoft is reportedly auto-installing the HP Smart app on Windows 10 and 11 PCs (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Its not very good even for enterprise level, you still have to reinstall whole OS and run debloaters to delete hp spyware. A lot of pointless extra work for something you should be able to just hand out or do basic configurations.

Maybe its good if you consider purely the hardware, but even then it propably has at least some way for hp to gather information no matter what you do to it. I wonder if anyone has thoroughly investigated what kind of stuff corporations put into stuff they sell.

[โ€“] banneryear1868 2 points 11 months ago

you still have to reinstall whole OS and run debloaters to delete hp spyware. A lot of pointless extra work

15 year sysadmin and I've never worked anywhere or heard of an org that uses the pre-installed OS, and that's independent of manufacturer and OS.