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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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

Any proof? Kinda seems like major privacy violation if it sold our keystrokes like that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cortana enhanced program, enhanced tipe writing, voice recognition. Maybe they don't sell it directly, but the register every move.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Again, proof? Articles? Anything? Pretty bold statement without evidence.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Am I missing something? This article is 7 years old & mentions nothing about keylogging

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think about it practically. Microsoft is not an advertising company, they make their money from enterprise software. Windows is installed on billions of computers. The infrastructure required to accept and process every single key pressed by every single windows user and turn it into something usable would be enormous. And for what? To make a few extra millions by selling it to some advertising company?

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

Microsoft is an advertising company just like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple. Bing search and Edge browser in Windows are a few ways ads are shown to users. Netflix is using Microsoft ads network for their platform to show to their subscribers. Companies pay a lot of money to get preferential suggestions/queries on their stores and search engines.

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microsoft-audience-network

Microsoft generates over 10 billion US Dollars per year in revenue from their advertisement division. The revenue growth from their advertisement business is growing exponentially at around 10 percent every year.

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

Fair enough, I didn't know they actually operated an ad network outside their own services. I still don't think they are keylogging everyone though