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The impudence of Microsoft has reached new (criminal?) heights

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rdl:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on July 09, 2020, 10:06:34 pm ---And what is it they're collecting which is so offensive to you?

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I don't know and that's the problem.

rsjsouza:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 10, 2020, 12:23:37 am ---
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on July 09, 2020, 09:11:15 pm ---Other alternatives are more encouraging by the day.

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There was a point in the mid 90s I though LINUX may become a viable alternative.   NI, Altera and a few other large companies were starting to support it.    Normally they were very specific about what was required and their software would be crippled.    I assume there wasn't a demand as even today you still don't see any major support for it.  The last few times I had planned to look at LINUX, the software I was interested in had been ported to Windows.

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Our software runs on Linux natively for about ten years now and I can tell it is a fraction of the Windows user base, only losing to macOS (which is only really popular in the US). However, the status of Linux nowadays is much more mature than in the 1990s (also a user since then) but still requires a great deal of monkey wrenching with the command line - something that for me is second nature but not for the mainstream public.

As for Windows, I still use Vegas and a few other Windows-only software (mostly older versions that I don't intend to pay to upgrade) that could potentially be confined to a VM, as it is easier to manage. The issue is really the jump itself and the fact that even Linux changes quite significantly and at a faster pace than Windows - a LTS Ubuntu, for example, is supported for five years. Still runs? Sure, but it becomes a similar conundrum.

At any rate, I wasn't intending to hijack this with penguin talk. Carry on.

joeqsmith:
I posted back when Microsoft duped my wife using their deceptive popup tactics into changing the OS on her laptop.  This was prior to my locking down all MS traffic.  Since then she has moved to a MAC.   It's rare to see her use the Windows PC.   

Once you start locking at the router, you discover some odd things.  For example, duckduckgo.com is touted as the non-tracking, protective search engine.   Ping it and look up who owns the IP.   

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 10, 2020, 12:56:59 pm ---I posted back when Microsoft duped my wife using their deceptive popup tactics into changing the OS on her laptop.  This was prior to my locking down all MS traffic.  Since then she has moved to a MAC.   It's rare to see her use the Windows PC.   

Once you start locking at the router, you discover some odd things.  For example, duckduckgo.com is touted as the non-tracking, protective search engine.   Ping it and look up who owns the IP.   

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I guess my filters won't allow pinging duckduckgo.com, I get 100% packet loss...    -  but a WhoIs query didn't return anything untoward.  What are you seeing?


joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 10, 2020, 01:18:37 pm ---
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on July 10, 2020, 12:56:59 pm ---I posted back when Microsoft duped my wife using their deceptive popup tactics into changing the OS on her laptop.  This was prior to my locking down all MS traffic.  Since then she has moved to a MAC.   It's rare to see her use the Windows PC.   

Once you start locking at the router, you discover some odd things.  For example, duckduckgo.com is touted as the non-tracking, protective search engine.   Ping it and look up who owns the IP.   

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I guess my filters won't allow pinging duckduckgo.com, I get 100% packet loss...    -  but a WhoIs query didn't return anything untoward.  What are you seeing?

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See attached.  Also a quick search:

--- Quote ---Microsoft and DuckDuckGo have partnered to provide a search solution that delivers relevant advertisements to you while protecting your privacy. If you click on a Microsoft-provided ad, you will be redirected to the advertiser’s landing page through Microsoft Advertising’s platform. At that point, Microsoft Advertising will use your full IP address and user-agent string so that it can properly process the ad click and charge the advertiser.
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