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Say it ain't so, Satya. 
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Hmmm, who CAN you trust?
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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It tells you if new versions are available, so obviously it has to phone home at least some to do that.
Explorans limites defectum
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Well, it seems like I put a smiley there.
If I was paranoid, I would just block it at the firewall.
I am NOT paranoid (they really are out to get me). )Another
You guys sure are touchy about this stuff. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: You guys sure are touchy about this stuff.
I didn't read it that way. I thought they were giving you a valid reason for it to call home. Nothing more.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I wouldn't use that. Why should I care if MS knows if i have installed VSCode or not. They need to know if it is worth working on after all.
...and why, if you are not the trusting kind, should you trust some random stranger instead?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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And?
Do you have any idea how many application send usage data back to their vendors? MS doesn't have a monopoly on this, not even close.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Do you have any idea how many application send usage data back to their vendors? MS doesn't have a monopoly on this, not even close.
So it's a good thing, then.
Thanks for sorting that out for us.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Oh I never said it was a good thing. I just said MS wasn't the only one who does it.
I trust companies about as far as I can throw them. Their mantra is "profit at all costs", so they take whatever data they can get and sell it to advertisers or whoever wants it.
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So what we need is governance, and privacy laws.
And a few executives sent to prison for breaking those laws fines might be good for the exchequer, but they'll just be considered as running costs, like legal fees.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: privacy laws.
I agree. I feel so violated when I find out that my software checked for updates on its own. It's infuriating. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It's not the update check. I don't have a problem with update checks.
It's the "usage data" that's being sent back.
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: It's the "usage data" that's being sent back.
Good point. That offends me just as much. I feel violated when they know that I used their app for 3 hours today. 
Seriously, is any of the data they send back confidential? I could be wrong but I don't see the harm in them sending back anything they want (with respect to using their app.)
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, how do you know what they're sending back? What data did the app collect?
Considering Facebook and Google both collect as much data as they can on you, even if you're not users of their stuff!, what is are the apps you DO use collecting?
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When we can't define a fear it is an irrational fear.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It's only irrational if you don't try to verify it, understand it, research it, and combat it. The irrational ones just skip all the intermediary steps and go straight to combating it.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: So what we need is governance, and privacy laws.
And a few executives sent to prison for breaking those laws fines
Considering government is nearly always made up of those very people, and their lawyers, it's very unlikely that's ever going to happen.
Mark_Wallace wrote: they'll just be considered as running costs, like legal fees
That is pretty much how it works today.
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You can trust Huawei!  Mwahahahah!
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Just released: Stunning hi-res image (first ever!) of the super massive hole at the center of our galaxy! #EHTBlackHole… https://t.co/1jyuV4gFX0"
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Sweet!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Glad you liked it. Most people's eyes just glaze over when they see it.
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Nothing could be cruller than raising our expectations like that.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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DRHuff wrote: cruller
"more cruel"
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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