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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] Dehydrated 86 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What part of Windows (or Microsoft software in general) is not a data collection service?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you aren’t using an insider edition then Notepad is still safe

[–] d3Xt3r 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

... for now. They've already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won't be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

[–] Neon 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

bloated?

I think then new Notepad is just perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The tabs are nice, but I notice it takes 3x as long to open (TBF it's still under a second) and take up 10x the memory (12MB vs 1.2MB), for basically doing the same thing as the old version.

[–] Dehydrated 8 points 11 months ago

Impressive

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When I look at my Pi Hole dashboard while my girlfriend's Mac is booted, I'm surprised by how many requests are blocked, given that apple somehow has the reputation of respecting their user's privacy.

And when she boots into Windows 10 MS's data stealing gets downright creepy.
I am lucky enough not to have a Windows 11 PC on my network but I think I would see even more denied requests.

[–] Dehydrated 5 points 11 months ago

Proprietary software is very creepy