microsoft-ies 🍵

They don't try to explain. They just say "I have nothing to hide".

It is as if they don't mind having a CCTV installed in the house that is accessible by who knows.

"I have nothing to hide" Yes you do. Yes you do. Here's my email: not_a_real_email@thisisan.analogy Send me all your login combinations for every single account you have. If you feel creeped out, then why are you not creeped out at how these corporations spy on you?
- Hey i sent all my passwords and stuff but some guy called The Post Master just keeps replying?
  This probably wouldn’t happen if you just would use windows…
- Cause you care.
  Corporation doesn't give a shit about the information, and selling login information would be a massive scandal for them.
  Like this analogy is asinine. It could be applied to a bunch of software that would have everything to lose being caught doing it.
Hey, could you unlock your phone and hand me it so I can scroll through all your texts? No? Then you do have something to hide.
If that doesn't work, try search history.
having a CCTV installed in the house that is accessible by who knows.
That's already the case for some people: http://insecam.org/
So basicly a smart fridge (or whatever that latest thing is)

Microsoft-ies understanding they're being spied on but not moving because games

Apple doing the same spying while advertising as privacy friendly:

The advice of "You have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide, so simply don't break the law" is not a 100% effective strategy. It's especially not good advice when jurisdictions are enforcing oppressive laws. Fuck big tech.

And don't dare suggest Linux! "bUt MuH vIdEo GaMeZ!!"

Micro-softies

Once a week or so I have one of my friends go "so why do you not just use windows again?"

Strangely enough, because I'm finding it to be more stable than Windows.
My work laptop has the Bluetooth or Internet service just cut out without any explanation. The first reboot doesn't fix it, but for some reason the second does 🤷‍♀️

I know someone who did not know there were other phone companies than Apple, I guess there are enought that don't even know Windows exists, because it is the only thing they know and thus that spying on them is possible.

I've got many explanations for how they requiring permission to send MS anything from the contents of my disks and memory is a pretty healthy thing, doesn't mean they can read my data, and that I'm just paranoid.

I've literally never heard a single person try to justify this. Who is this referring to?

@mojo @Vuraniute
They justify their telemetry as it helps them to decide, "the best places to allocate dev time to improve the platform."
IMO, this info almost never necessary to help improve the platform. Usually if a feature isn't well used, it will get less dev time, ignoring the fact that it mght be less used because it isn't well implemented. The converse could also happen, they allocate dev time to a feature that isn't well used to try and make it more used, which might ignore the fact that it is quite frankly a useless feature.

In ancient battle two lines would come togther and scream at each other, then they would clash. The press could get kinda bad, but they were usually pretty neutral until one side lost its cool and ran away, and that's when the fucking slaughtering starts.

Microsofties are defeated before the fight ever begins. They are used to just flopping down and watching their blood pour out.

I love big brother!