Pirate sites ban Windows 10 over privacy worries

[A Guy]

There's been a good amount of privacy freak-out over Windows 10.

Concerns have been sparked by things such as the Wi-Fi password sharing feature and the fact that Windows 10 by default shares a lot of your personal information - contacts, calendar details, text and touch input, location data, and what Ars Technica calls "a whole lot more" - with Microsoft's servers.

Of late, that paranoia has spiked over the notion that Microsoft plans to keep people from running conterfeit software.

The notion came out of Microsoft's new Windows 10 update procedures, which, coupled with the company's Services Agreement, could allow Redmond to block pirated content and unauthorized hardware and reach right out and wipe torrents clean off of people's hard drives.

Fear spread that, in the words of one report, "Microsoft has practically baked DRM [digital rights management] into the core of Windows 10".

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You can't make this stuff up, lol

A Guy

 

[Layback Bear]

When the torrent sites and black sites are worried about a security leak, that is a true security problem.

 

[derekimo]

The article is about paranoid pirate sites, not security leaks. They are worried their pirated games and software are being reported because of some wording being twisted in the privacy agreement.

Hate on W10 all you want but at least get the facts straight.

 

[Barman58]

At last - some good news - the pirates are unhappy, well shiver me timbers :roflmao:

 

[Layback Bear]

At last - some good news - the pirates are unhappy, well shiver me timbers :roflmao:

I don't hate Windows 10 as of now I just don't like it but many do.

 

[Anak]

When I finally do immerse myself into Windows 10 I'll make sure to reference articles like Ars Technica: Windows 10 doesn’t offer much privacy by default: Here’s how to fix it

The loss of Cortana? I never liked Bob or especially Clippy, and you can also add Merlin the wizard, Rover the dog, and Links the cat to the list.

 

[RoasterMen]

Y'all gotta admit you pirated a software once. I admit I am one of them. Reason why there are pirates is because of difficulties of purchasing it like overwhelmingly high tax. There is a religion for pirates fyi

 

[ThrashZone]

When I finally do immerse myself into Windows 10 I'll make sure to reference articles like Ars Technica: Windows 10 doesn’t offer much privacy by default: Here’s how to fix it
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Good read and so was the full review
The only thing that saved 10tp was the new iso builds to clean install for me anyway
Many updates I don't believe ever really installed many said waiting to be installed forever :/

Could of been for features that were blocked in group policy which I did block a lot of them all that I found

 

[lehnerus2000]

In a few months there will be "strippers", which will disable/remove all of the tracking, auto-updates, DRM & phone home "features" from W10.

 

[groze]

In a few months there will be "strippers", which will disable/remove all of the tracking, auto-updates, DRM & phone home "features" from W10.

I think there already are some of those tools out there.

 

[lehnerus2000]

I have seen comments about an anti-auto-update tool.

If it works, it should be more convenient than disabling/removing/uninstalling the network.

 

[ThrashZone]

Yep I remember this one too Bill posted
http://www.sevenforums.com/security-news/378118-how-protect-your-privacy-windows-10-a.html

 

[ignatzatsonic]

In a few months there will be "strippers", which will disable/remove all of the tracking, auto-updates, DRM & phone home "features" from W10.

O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10

Here's one; freeware from a company that makes a pretty good defrag product that some here use.

Don't know how well Shutup 10 works. Just heard about it a day or two ago.

 

[essenbe]

In a few months there will be "strippers", which will disable/remove all of the tracking, auto-updates, DRM & phone home "features" from W10.

O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10

Here's one; freeware from a company that makes a pretty good defrag product that some here use.

Don't know how well Shutup 10 works. Just heard about it a day or two ago.

Read their Privacy Policy Privacy

 

[ignatzatsonic]

In a few months there will be "strippers", which will disable/remove all of the tracking, auto-updates, DRM & phone home "features" from W10.

O&O ShutUp10: download free antispy tool for Windows 10

Here's one; freeware from a company that makes a pretty good defrag product that some here use.

Don't know how well Shutup 10 works. Just heard about it a day or two ago.

Read their Privacy Policy Privacy

I did and it's pathetic.

Is there no way out of this morass, short of going back (forward?) to an abacus?

 

[Layback Bear]

I think a lot of companies will go to this type of privacy policy's.

Their still going to gather your information but they tell you up front they are going to.
I think they will use this method to try and stay out of the court rooms and still gather your information.

Of course let it be known this is just my opinion.

 

[Hellriser]

As long as they don't touch Windows 7 in terms of shady updates that will give it the W10 "upgrades", I can skip W10 altogether. At least for 5 or 6 more years.

 

[groze]

As long as they don't touch Windows 7 in terms of shady updates that will give it the W10 "upgrades", I can skip W10 altogether. At least for 5 or 6 more years.

You might want to read this

Microsoft Brings Their Spying Features From Windows 10 to 7 & 8 - Windows 10 Forums

 

[Hellriser]

You might want to read this

Microsoft Brings Their Spying Features From Windows 10 to 7 & 8 - Windows 10 Forums

Thanks for the link! This is why I was saying that, I've been checking for this kind of stuff and found them some time ago when they were released. Now I don't install any update until I thoroughly check it to see what's it about. The bad thing is that, like someone here on the forums was saying a while back, when you do a fresh install is a headache to keep track of what has to be install and what is basically, Macro-soft keyloggers.

But thanks for the unified list. Will start creating a text file with this stuff.

 

[ThrashZone]

Pretty old news considering how long ago the updates started coming out