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Jonathan Porta
Personal blog · jonathan.porta.codes · on HN as jonathanportaprogramminghardware
Jonathan Porta's personal blog at jonathan.porta.codes covers programming and hardware. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10”. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts on Windows 10 privacy, covering telemetry that sends typed text to Microsoft and the install-time privacy options and free-upgrade opt-out.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Adventures in diy, electronics, programming, remote control and anything else.
Most-linked posts?
- I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 102 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-07-30
What Hacker News says?
I think you mean, during the install process you selected the tiny "Customize settings" and manually disabled this option, after scrolling down on the page that (on my smaller screen) doesn't have a scrollbar enabled: ref: https://jonathan.porta.codes/2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-... Also, it seems that Win10 ignores some of these settings: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3gm1e3/what_wind...
Comment linking /2015/07/30/windows-10-seems-to-have-some-scary-privacy-defaults/
on “Every 30 minutes Windows 10 sends all typed text to Microsoft”Submitted I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10 as a story · 965 points
HN discussionWhen I installed windows 10 last week I had the .. pleasure... to look at the various privacy options. During the installation, Windows uses weasel words to present the user with privacy settings hiding the option to change them at all. Take a look: https://jonathan.porta.codes/images/posts/2015/07/window-10-... In "express settings": * Send contact, calendar and input data to Microsoft * Send typing and inking data…
Comment linking /images/posts/2015/07/window-10-privacy-settings-1.png
on “Microsoft Removes the Option to Opt Out of Windows 10 Free Upgrade?”
