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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Even after paying, windows sells our info, every keystroke.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Is it really that bad? I haven't used it in years so I'm not following it. Do they literally have a built-in keylogger?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Definitely not, that would be an absurd privacy violation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean yeah it’s not exactly a private OS but a key logger would be mental

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

At this point I don't think it will be, to be honest. And at this point they don't need one, their pretend assistant has the ability to record all the activity anyway

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Microsoft does collect a lot of data. But storing every keystroke is first of all impractical, because it would take a lot of disk space to store every keystroke of every user, and secondly not very useful unless they also knew when, in which application, and in what context each key was pressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I guess it was hyperbole but I wasn't sure

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