![]() ![]() The type of mindset they wanted for the audience of this video is to uncritically accept their framing of whatever they show, regardless of accuracy. ![]() I don't even like what Microsoft did with W10's telemetry, which neither did the German government when they created a taskforce to determine how it could be best mitigated, but this type of video is so shallow and bereft of accurate or useful/actionable info that it's pointless. They compare to Windows XP which didn't had such W10 telemetry options onboarding, native widgets, third-party bundleware or other such background tasks and marvel that there's less internet traffic by default. That's the extent of their 'analysis' that leads them to write the title 'Has Windows become spyware?'. Yet here is being mischaracterized by the author without any hesitation. From what I can see the company exists to facilitate services to comply with the EU's GDPR and California's privacy regulations-and looking at GDPR and privacy advocate feedback from results it does an excellent job. ![]() Compares OneTrust domain to Orwell's 1984 un-ironically while again not bothering to do research into who they are, just glances at their home page and continues with their prior assumptions. Since the author isn't realizing/acknowledging/disclosing such factors it isn't taken into consideration in their video. It has been pointed out by users that W11 comes with widgets, various of which are internet-facing and would be contributing to such traffic. They're not showing they actually care what these are but rather showing they feel like they can take liberties to characterize anything since they likely expect their audience dislikes modern Windows. Literally the first search result for this domain explains that it's content delivery optimization based on a user's region, making content pull from servers that are closer (ie: faster). They point out a geo.prod domain of Microsoft's and without bothering to check what it is comment 'I guess that's geolocation tracking'. Does this sound like an impartial source? Off the bat when in Wireshark framing traffic as 'let's find out who's spying on us'. Pro version installs from ISO images (at least with W10) in my experience lack such third-party bundleware. Such programs on their own will be influencing traffic if any part of them is set to run. Windows since v10 at least (I didn't notice it on 8.1 Pro but can't speak for Home edition) has bundled various apps, including ridiculous things like Candy Crush which one can find past reports of being added to the startup apps. ![]() 'Brand new system with nothing installed' is misleading. These things on their own will absolutely be a factor in what traffic is being sent for a fresh install. Windows systems have user onboarding screens where the user configures some initial settings on new installs-including various telemetry options and whether they've created a user login using a Microsoft account or local (non-Microsoft) account. Nothing about Windows license type, either, just 'W11'. Doesn't detail how the system was configured, neither in the video or description. This author is making several mistakes with how they went about this and then says, 'I could keep going all day' without even recognizing the the flaws with the comparison or at worst knowing them and misleading the audience. ![]()
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