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Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What part of Windows (or Microsoft software in general) is not a data collection service?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (2 children)

If you aren’t using an insider edition then Notepad is still safe

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

... for now. They've already replaced the old Notepad with a bloated UWP version, so it probably won't be long before it starts sending telemetry as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

bloated?

I think then new Notepad is just perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The tabs are nice, but I notice it takes 3x as long to open (TBF it's still under a second) and take up 10x the memory (12MB vs 1.2MB), for basically doing the same thing as the old version.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Impressive

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

When I look at my Pi Hole dashboard while my girlfriend's Mac is booted, I'm surprised by how many requests are blocked, given that apple somehow has the reputation of respecting their user's privacy.

And when she boots into Windows 10 MS's data stealing gets downright creepy.
I am lucky enough not to have a Windows 11 PC on my network but I think I would see even more denied requests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Proprietary software is very creepy