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Sneaky Microsoft renamed its data slurper before sticking it back in Windows 10
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Microsoft states
Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.
Article here Click "Link" in next post - original did not work
Examples of data we collect include your name, email address, preferences and interests; browsing, search and file history; phone call and SMS data; device configuration and sensor data; and application usage.
Article here Click "Link" in next post - original did not work
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Fightsback wrote: »It's a bug in the BB platform code that causes that.
Sort of a bug, in so much that it's an intentional vBulletin feature having an unintentional consequence on that link.
It's this feature:
seeing the underscore as a qualifying character for that limit, and stupidly applying it to urls, and so breaking up the
microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10
part of the url.
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https://www.safer-networking.org/spybot-anti-beacon/
Seems to be legit. Spybot Anti-Beacon is a standalone tool which was designed to block and stop the various tracking (telemetry) issues present in Windows 100 -
There are a few programmes that claim to disable Windows 10 telemetry. Use at your own risk though as MS say they can damage your install (though one could say 'they would say that').0
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Sort of a bug, in so much that it's an intentional vBulletin feature having an unintentional consequence on that link.
It's this feature:
seeing the underscore as a qualifying character for that limit, and stupidly applying it to urls, and so breaking up the
microsoft_renamed_data_slurper_reinserted_windows_10
part of the url.
Thanks for the explanation, was thinking it was a parsing bug with double underscores in the URL.Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0 -
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