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

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 04, 2020, 04:06:54 pm ---Do you have any suggestions that go beyond merely not using those services?

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Even that doesn't help, because all the services that you DO use are feeding the beast in the background.

Every time you do a "Captcha", guess who got "captured"?
NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 04, 2020, 04:28:45 pm ---Even that doesn't help, because all the services that you DO use are feeding the beast in the background.

Every time you do a "Captcha", guess who got "captured"?

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That's why actively protesting is better than just using the services as little as possible.

There's a captcha breaker to fight the much criticized Google reCAPTCHA.
https://github.com/dessant/buster
TMM:
Tbh Windows 10 is an improvement over Windows 7. Things generally just work. Almost all annoyances can be turned off if you delve deep enough, and in a world where Facebook, Google etc know your every move (if you use their mobile apps) I wouldn't be worried about a small trickle of activity profiling being sent to MS. Complaining about M$ will probably put your on their watchlist instead of flying under the radar blending in with the normies viewing selfies on instagram haha!

Re: browsers - I stopped using Chrome when they added the feature to auto-login the browser itself to your Google account as soon as you log in to any Google service via the browser. At least with Firefox you have the option of using the browser somewhat anonymously.

While I hate updates which force new features (or remove them), I think forcing Edge onto people still running outdated browsers is probably a positive thing. Better that grandma uses a modern, reasonably secure browser when following a dodgy email link, instead of IE6.
themadhippy:
Wonder how much of a back hander the EU got  to stop looking to closely  at  micro$t forcing internet browsers on people
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: NiHaoMike on July 04, 2020, 04:42:38 pm ---That's why actively protesting is better than just using the services as little as possible.

There's a captcha breaker to fight the much criticized Google reCAPTCHA.
https://github.com/dessant/buster

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You're not actively protesting anything, only fooling yourself and possibly making yourself more visible by also creating additional relevant traffic. If you want to try doing something: block ads, scripts and advertising domains. Block telemetry whenever possible. Use privacy respecting browsers and anonymous tabs and counter fingerprinting. Accept that using some products and services is no longer viable. Not using a smartphone may be a good idea and I suspect that some Linux based distributions are the best option for desktop computing. Whatever the case, without some legislative intervention it seems you can only hope to reduce your footprint a tiny bit. It's not a fight one can reasonably hope to win on your own.
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