Stop using Windows 10. You are the reason this world is going to shit, because you let stuff like this happen. You are throwing away your most basic human right, privacy, and by extension, freedom (such as freedom of speech). Soon it will no longer be recognized as a human right anymore because all of you are too busy going "hurr durr convenience" and "it just werks".
Old news. This shit got resolved ages ago. Marginally simple tweaks that any non-retard can achieve basically neuter or flat out disable any privacy threats that might occur.
On a related note, telemetry in and of itself is usually harmless. It's just hardware, software, error, and driver checks at least, though when telemetry is used to observe your actual usage habits it becomes an issue.
Grayson Phillips
Telemetry is not harmless when it's done in the way that Microsoft is doing it. Telemetry must be done in a privacy-conscious way. Microsoft is not doing it in a privacy-conscious way. They literally send your keystrokes, full memory dumps, random files (for example for their Cloud Antivirus, personal files related to a crash, etc.) and so much more to their servers. And of course the US government isn't doing anything about it because they WANT this sorta stuff to happen. Because NSA. Do you seriously just want to cover your ears and think that everything is fine (now)? Even if you apply "tweaks" or whatever, it will not be fine. It's still a proprietary piece of software that was - from the very beginning - designed to spy on you. Microsoft even collaborated with the NSA on the creation of Windows 10. It will still be spying on you. You can't disable this shit. Afaik they even hardcoded IP addresses in the goddamn kernel to make it almost impossible for you to get rid of the spying.
Please, at least *try* using alternatives. GNU/Linux on the Desktop is in a fairly usable state nowadays for example. I'm using it right now. It's decent enough for 99% of tasks.
Noah Sanders
(cont) I personally recommend checking out kubuntu.org/ KDE is pretty user-friendly and should have all the features you might possibly want. Installing additional programs is also very easy. If Ubuntu is too "noobish" for you, then you could go straight to Arch or Gentoo, if that's really what you want. At least try, man. Do you not want to fight for a better future?
I'm dual booting and as long as i'm in university i'll be using windows 10. and no Wine isn't good enough. KDE is better that the Windows DE, it's buggy but it's still surprisingly less buggy than windows
Jace Martin
>your most basic human right, privacy Human rights are a ridiculous concept and even then companies using your data isn't one of them.
So out of curiosity, once Windows 7 stops being supported, what are the alternatives to W10 and Linux (which is what I'm planning to switch to)?
Andrew Jackson
BSD is also an option. I'm not a paid shill for any OS.
Are there any specific pieces of software you depend on that are only available on Windows 10? Are they available for Windows 7, perhaps? Windows 7 would still be at least a little bit better than Windows 10. Feel free to name said pieces of software, maybe I can suggest alternatives that work on GNU/Linux.
cringe
Probably b8 but whatever Ah, I see. So you feel comfortable having all your personal stuff such as passwords, porn habits, social security numbers, and so on uploaded to (((them)))? I see, I see. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear. Makes perfect sense mate. It's not like literally every single person on planet earth has at least one thing they wish to hide, oh wait. That's exactly how it is. Keep deluding yourself that you have nothing to hide, just for hurr durr convenience. Honestly I don't even understand why people that use Windows 10 are on Jow Forums.
Chase Cruz
>You are throwing away your most basic human right, privacy, and by extension, freedom (such as freedom of speech). Even if it isn't Windows doing it literally it will your ISP, Google, Jow Forums and countless other websites you may visit are doing the exact same thing. I will never understand people complaining about privacy but go on YouTube or Jow Forums that track your data as well. Hmm... makes you think that the majority of Jow Forums are complete retards when it comes to technology.
Idiot. You're preaching to the choir. Have you seen how many different distros and mac users there are here? Half the windows users here are still clinging to 7. Blame the rest of the fucking world for allowing & upgrading to 10. I had a friend on a super old second hand pc that upgraded to 10 just because he liked it better.
Joshua Long
autocad, microsoft office, and some other obscure arabian university programs that apparently don't work with wine
Anthony Rogers
1/3
The way I see it, these are your options: 1) GNU/Linux, like you said. 2) You could keep using Windows 7. Sure, it won't get any security updates anymore, but if you get a firewall (such as SimpleWall or TinyWall) and keep your applications (especially your web browser) up to date, you shouldn't have too much to worry about. Make sure to disable CEIP and remove any and all updates that have been identified by users as being just telemetry spyware garbage (just search around a bit on your favorite search engine). Then it's only a matter of time until software vendors stop supporting Windows 7, for example Adobe has done just that recently unfortunately. The latest versions of Premiere Pro, After Effects, and maybe some other of their Creative Suite applications will only run on Windows 10 and macOS from what I've heard. But you could still use older versions of their software, or avoid Adobe altogether and use competing products (VEGAS Pro is an example for professional video editing). 3) BSD. But that would be a pretty meh experience honestly.
"Why not macOS? Isn't Apple all about privacy?" you might ask. There are simply so many downsides to using a Mac instead of a regular PC, listing them here would take forever. Plus, honestly, I don't really trust Apple at all. They probably pull the same kinda shit as Microsoft. Their whole privacy thing is probably just marketing nonsense.
Ryder Diaz
2/3
You have a point, however, consider this: Would you rather get fucked in the ass by 3 companies, or only by 1? Let's say you use Windows 10, Yahoo! Mail, and YouTube. Windows 10 can be replaced with GNU/Linux, BSD, or at the very least Windows 7. Yahoo! Mail can be replaced with Tutanota (just an example provider, there are many more privacy-respecting ones available). YouTube is not exactly easy to replace. By replacing 2 of your 3 used software/services, you've now managed to still gain a rather substantial amount of privacy. It's better than nothing! Sure, you won't get 100% privacy this way, but I don't think 100% privacy is achievable in general, unless you wanna plug out your ethernet cable or whatever. It's all about minimizing risks and preserving as much of your privacy and freedom as you personally can and feel comfortable with. You can't really have a black-white mindset on this (or whatever it's called, I think you know what I mean).
I saw a strawpoll here recently asking people which OS they use, and if I remember correctly, 60%ish of the votes were Windows 10. So, no, I don't think I'm retarded for alerting people on here about the risks of Windows 10. The more people switch to alternatives, the better. I want the world to become a better place as a result. I've already written about this on various websites (yes, Reddit is one of those websites, fite me) and also told people IRL, I'm not just yelling about this on Jow Forums. If you want to make a difference and fight for the future, I suggest you do the same.
Ian Cruz
3/3
Hmm, I'm not really familiar with CAD software unfortunately, however maybe this can help? alternativeto.net/software/autocad/ Or maybe AutoCAD works on Windows 7 at least? Or in Wine?
As for Microsoft Office, maybe give LibreOffice a shot? It's pretty good. Or try hosting an ONLYOFFICE instance. It's also pretty decent. MSOffice probably also works on 7, but given the fact it's a Microsoft product, they'll probably stop supporting it very, very soon (most likely when Windows 7 reaches EOL). MSOffice will most likely not work in Wine.
As for the obsure arabian university programs you mentioned, again, are you sure those don't at least work on Windows 7? Windows 7 > Windows 10. Or try and fuck around with Wine a bit more.
Ideally, you could have GNU/Linux on your host machine and just have a simple Windows 7/10 VM (preferably with no network adapter, if possible) for all the programs you can't replace or get to run on your host. There are many options available, you just have to look around a little bit :)
The White House had been briefed on a plan to create an agency called HARPA, a healthcare counterpart to the Pentagon’s research and development arm DARPA. Among other initiatives, this new agency would reportedly collect volunteer data from a suite of smart devices, including Apple Watches, Fitbits, Amazon Echos, and Google Homes in order to identify “neurobehavioral signs” of “someone headed toward a violent explosive act.” The project would then use artificial intelligence to create a “sensor suite” to flag mental changes that make violence more likely.
Your social credit score will be flagged when your browser fingerprint reports to the cloud that you visited Jow Forums! And your neurobehavioral score will drop. Doesn't matter wtf you'll use. You could use TailOS and shell into Parrot Linux while emulating Kali linux, and your digital finger print will still show ITS YOU IDIOTS. It's been game over since 2001.
Ian Gomez
4/3
Some general privacy resources I would recommend (I don't necessarily endorse every single one of their recommendations): privacytools.io/ prism-break.org/ r/privacy and their Wiki r/privacytoolsIO and their Wiki There are many more, but these are the ones I can think of right now in my head.
Also here's a video showcasing how bad it can possibly get in the future if nothing changes for the better, since the previous post (not me) mentioned social credit scores. China already has a system like this implemented and is actively using it, btw. youtube.com/watch?v=WByBm2SwKk8
Caleb Gomez
Apple iCloud automatically stores your Mac password and iOS passwords. Encrypted of course and APPLE has that key!
I wouldn't go in with a mindset of "oh there are probably backdoors and/or 0days, welp, let's just give up completely then and submit to the botnet entirely". I think that is a very, very dangerous and unhealthy mindset to have. You are being a very, very good goyim if you think like that.
Just because there might be backdoors doesn't mean that they will actively use them against you. You should still try and fight for your human rights as much as you possibly can. It will certainly make a difference, especially if more and more people do it. And also since more people will become privacy-aware, more people will look into it, and patch backdoors they might stumble upon. Thankfully I do think more and more people are starting to care, because they are being warned and because privacy violations are reaching insanely ridiculous levels, just have a look at the sub count graph of r/privacy: subredditstats.com/r/privacy
And regarding Apple specifically, yeah I know, they're not that great when it comes to privacy, even though they like to pretend they are. From what I know, iMessages is supposed to be end-to-end encrypted and is heavily marketed as being such however iCloud Backup (which from my knowledge is enabled by default), will upload the key(s) of your iMessages to Apple. Therefore Apple, and by extension everyone else who wants to get your messages and other data, will have access to them (if you use(d) that backup shit). Apple even admitted this somewhere on their website (idk where exactly).
Every search MUST be recorded, KB4512941 is taking care of that, why shuld you use autistic registry to fix up your OS (they don't work anyway)
Lucas Walker
Not the poster you're looking for unfortunately :P I'm not even Finnish lol.
Oh that's pretty cool, thank you very, very much! This is gonna be very useful for discovering new subs, if only I knew about this earlier And yes all you other fags can hate on me for being a plebbitfag, but I bet 95% of you also visit Reddit from time to time, and you just like to pretend you don't, in order to fit in.
Anthony Garcia
Don't just direct this at Windows 10, direct it at all versions of Windows. They are as bad as each other.
Jack Wright
>is now secretly using the sub search engine to add new subs to their account!
Evan Moore
Yep! I just wanted to mainly address Windows 10, since that's the OS where everything went to complete shit and the one that spies on you the most. But yeah, avoid Windows altogether whenever possible. Check out GNU/Linux. It is fairly usable nowadays. Am on Kubuntu right now and can recommend it.
Blake Hall
Oh that's helpful, thanks. I wasn't going to use macOS, I dislike using it and AFAIK privacy on Apple devices requires you to trust Apple (and since they collaborated with the NSA too, well)
>uBlock Origin How's Ad Nauseam compared to it? IIRC it builds upon it (and is slightly more annoying to install on chromium-based browsers)
Tyler Howard
I'm dual booting. Will fullt switch when EAC for rust fixes itself, for now I'll just have to use windows for when I wanna play some games
Jordan Baker
Who gives half a shit?
Linux doesn't support visual studio so I won't use it. Linux is not a drop-in replacement for windows so stop recommending it as such.
Christopher Rodriguez
I'm not sure exactly which programming language you are using in Visual Studio, however if it's .NET, then check out JetBrains Rider. It runs natively on Linux and also has a ton more useful features. I'd say it's much better than VS actually. Other options include Visual Studio Codium (Codium, not Code! Code has spyware), MonoDevelop (also known as Xamarin Studio), or just a regular text editor like Vim, Emacs, Sublime Text, Atom, you name it. And even if you're not coding in .NET, there are many other IDEs available on Linux for basically every programming language in existence. Visual Studio isn't the only thing on the planet yknow. Linux is also generally praised as being excellent as a development environment and far better than Windows. So we're not just talking privacy here, we're actually talking features and usability, in this specific matter at least.
Fair enough, I'm just glad you're considering switching at all! Just give it a shot whenever you're ready and see how it goes :) Also, checked.
Well from what I know AdNauseum is literally just uBlock Origin except instead of just removing the ads from your view, it also actively clicks them in the background, to make them worth less to the people that initially set up the ad, or to Google, or something like that?? I don't really know lol, I haven't looked into it too much. And I guess it also makes it somewhat harder to track you since the ad & tracking companies will be confused by the sheer amount of ads you're clicking on (from their point of view). They'll just be like "wtf". Whether you want this is up to you I guess, I personally just use uBlock Origin cuz idk, I'd rather just not have to deal with ads at all in any way, it would also consume more bandwidth. But if you want AdNauseum instead, go for it!
Jeremiah Turner
I see there's a bunch of ways to disable all this collecting...
Does this work? Is it possible to just block Windows from sending data?
Julian Powell
so you can't program, you learned to use visual studio and now you're stuck. you should give speeches for programmers so that they can avoid your mistake
James Morales
NO, they don't work, stop spreading misinformation
Josiah Edwards
Maybe with a constantly updating local firewall. Otherwise, no.
Owen Lopez
>Oh no, now Jewgle and Microshit know I masturbate to interracial cuck porn and Thai ladyboy, my life is ruined ;_;
imagine getting swatted by the government because your smartwatch told them that you are angry
Angel Ross
i only game and watch porn on my pc
Anthony Sanchez
i'm pretty much being forced into windows 10 because i'm gonna be buying a new pc
Anthony Wilson
>Fear of telemetry. >Run package manager blindly. Seriously neet people should just don't use internet anymore.
Henry Evans
Microsoft fought for freedom more than any linux based organization. You are just a retard!
Aaron Perry
I mean sure, it might disable some or most of the privacy-violating features in Windows 10, but from what I know it cannot be disabled entirely. A lot of tracking shit will still be enabled. Shit's even hardcoded into the kernel, see for yourself if you don't believe me: petri.com/windows-10-ignoring-hosts-file-specific-name-resolution Sure, PiHole will help and so on. But I mean really, just, why? Why bother with all this? Is it really worth it? I don't understand why you *need* Windows 10. Most applications still run on Windows 7 even. What does Windows 10 do better than any of its recent predecessors? And if Windows 7 is too outdated, then Windows 8.1 is still somewhat of an option, right? Just get an OS that respects you by default, like GNU/Linux (it's much more usable than a few years ago), or Windows 7/8.1. No more (insane) privacy violations, no more auto-reboots because "hurr durr we've got a new telemetry update for ya!!!!!!", etc. Just an operating system that executes stuff you tell it to execute. That's it.
That's not good fren. You should care. It is the current year and things are worse than ever before. And things are only going to get worse from here on out, that is, if you don't change your ways.
Really weak bait, but just in case it isn't: What?
Christopher Davis
How does that force you to use Windows?
Josiah Green
What said. You can install any operating system on your new PC. Windows 10 isn't locked into your PC. GNU/Linux, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 should install and run just fine.
Thomas Hernandez
I don't think there is a difference between installing Windows 10 and installing Windows 7 or 8.1.
Juan Thomas
Soon we'll live in a world where we can't even breathe without it being telemetrified in some way. This is not good.
Kevin Powell
What you don't thik is not what it is real
Connor Price
Why? It's the true freedom!
Ryan Mitchell
If you don't want to install Windows 10 because it is malware, why would you install Windows malware with a different name?
Connor Gray
Yeah I know, see though. Windows 10 does certainly take the cake by a major leap when it comes to spying.
Owen Barnes
windows 7 has no support for the latest cpus, 8.1 is pretty much a shitty version of 10, and why would i buy a new pc to use linux on it? if the only things i would do on a pc was shitposting on g and ricing my desktop i would stick to my current pc
because there's no other OS that could match it
Ayden Howard
I don't think that is true. There has been a confirmed universal backdoor in all versions of Windows since XP. So theoretically they are all as bad as each other.
Nathaniel Ward
Win8.1 has less spy capability, and it's also faster and more stable, linux woul be better. I'm say win 10 and win7 and win 8 are not all the same
Brody Turner
Hmm I mean yeah I guess, it's just that I would consider a backdoor a passive form of spying (not saying that backdoors aren't bad! of course they are). I was more talking about active forms of spying such as telemetry and so on, in which Windows 10 really does shine (and that's not good). But yeah I do agree, Windows in general is gay and should not be used at all (or only when absolutely necessary).
Sebastian Martin
It has the exact same capability.
Easton King
Well it seems to me that 10 has more integrated telemetry with timeline, phot app, clipboard onedrive etc etc etc, whatever.
Easton Perez
I've seen a small tool on GitHub that patches your system to still get updates, even if you have an "unsupported" CPU (thanks Microsoft, you guys are just fantastic, screwing over users in every single possible fucking way you can). You could use that, it probably takes like 10 seconds to do.
>"and why would i buy a new pc to use linux on it? if the only things i would do on a pc was shitposting on g and ricing my desktop i would stick to my current pc" Because that would give you back the control over your computer, and by extension your human rights? You're implying freedom and privacy are irrelevant. You're also implying that you cannot do anything in GNU/Linux, which is simply not true. Things have gotten much better, you can run almost all of your stuff on GNU/Linux nowadays just fine, without any problems (which I can confirm, since that's exactly what I've been doing for a while now). Even gaming works very well thanks to many natively-supported games. And Proton is a godsend. You should actually try it instead of having so much prejudice against it. Check out Kubuntu.
Jayden Ramirez
I'm genuinely tired of retarded students who have no idea what they're talking about and try making OS choice political.
Ryan Roberts
i know, but i also know it's too late for a small group of rogue autists to change anything. i have a plan for when everything goes full cyberpunk hell.
Damn! Just embrace the real freedom and yeah you're free to use or pirate windows to have proper HDR or work with usable/useful complex programs.
Tyler Gomez
Microsoft can't even write a working calculator. Why do you think their OS is anything but a toy?
Connor Kelly
>Major enterprises are using Windows. >Think it's a toy. Windows is not only some little apps it's an universe, an ecosystem that becomes more and more open and free to fork/contribute and that's fucking great.
Aiden Peterson
Enterprises use Windows because of Office and support contracts. Nothing more. It is not based on quality in the slightest.
Jacob Hall
This
Jaxon Bennett
>Thinking people are paying for shits. Enterprises chose M$ technology because there are no alternative!
Josiah Perry
No, it was a relationship established through political treachery.
Luis Butler
>You are the reason this world is going to shit >Just stop using Windows 10
You sound like a retarded vegan right now. Some individual lifestyle choice like being a freetard is not going to get rid of the capitalist surveillance state you fucking mongoloid.
Adam Anderson
>Thinking * is corrupted. >Can't accept the evidence. Pfff...
Elijah Gomez
What evidence?
Jose Gonzalez
>You should actually try it instead of having so much prejudice against it but i'm also using linux (debian and lubuntu) i would just never use it as a daily driver >I've seen a small tool on GitHub that patches your system to still get updates the problem is with the drivers, not updates, i knew about the update workaround thing
Benjamin Price
People use their money for valuable and sane products not shitty and stupid things.
Adam Smith
So I guess you think Apple makes excellent computers?
Logan Lewis
Not shitty !== excellent.
Colton Collins
Nice dodge, iToddler.
Matthew Flores
Yeah and that's why companies spend millions and billions on servers that hardly uses windows. It's a toy and building on it is a clusterfuck worse than JavaScript.
Noah Morales
M$ is adopting Linux in its core products doesn't mean Linux is fucking perfect.
Bentley Cooper
M$ is not Windows only! There so many banks and high security companies that use C# and ASP.NET and so on their infrastructure.
Leo Johnson
I would, ESL-san, but the alternatives aren't at a point that I would be able to leave Windows
Daniel Butler
If every single person who's ever visited Jow Forums stopped using Windows it would still not be enough to make a difference. Consumer rights aren't coming back.
Luis Lopez
fsfed and gnupilled
Zachary Davis
No such problems with LTSC N. Won't even bother giving you a (You) for this shit.
Gabriel Wood
What are these tweaks, if i may ask?
Aiden Hill
>Stop using Windows 10. Can't stop doing what I never did, retard.
Gavin Barnes
>"Telemetry is not harmless when you can opt-out during the installation." This isn't one such case, however.
Lucas Perry
when lincux gets something comparable to this, i'll try it
(a NATIVE firewall that can block incoming and/or outgoing traffic for any specific applications on your computer. and no gufw does not do that, it does not allow you to select specific applications. and amateur projects like douane don't fucking count either, they literally just made by one person in their spare time who literally say this is just a hobby project, do not use this for anythign important etc etc)