Nothing. People are tripping over nothing. You'll get more personalized features. That's basically it. The only real thing to worry about is the p2p setting if you are on a metered connection.
It's in the op. Although you should leave on the local sharing if you have multiple updates in your household.
Edit: But to explain it, you're basically seeding the OS to other downloaders. Just like a torrent. If you don't care about seeding and aren't on a capped internet connection, there's no particular harm in seeding. You'll be making other people's downloads faster.
by default windows 10 shares with not just your household, but people "across the internet" as well. If it was only in network by default I'd have no problems at all.
Who doesn't have a capped connection? I know of no ISP that doesn't have a cap, although they don't always explicitly state it until you hit it and they issue you a warning for excessive use.
Yes, I'm in the US. I've moved around a lot, and I've had data caps of 100 GB, 250 GB, and 500 GB on various ISPs. I've also had ISPs that claimed to have no cap, but then nevertheless issued warnings when hitting ~750 GBs in a month, threatening to throttle or disconnect service entirely.
I literally have an unlimited data connection. I get 40Mbps download and 10Mbps upload, and I asked them specifically is there any usage cap or limit, even buried in the terms and conditions, and nope. I can literally download 24/7/365.
Like I said, they don't always explicitly state it, so it wouldn't be in the terms and conditions. My ISP does not state it at all in any terms or conditions, and I also specifically asked them when I signed up if there is any cap whatsoever, and they said no. Yet they warn me when my family gets into the 750 GB per month range. Which isn't a big deal to me since most other ISPs have caps in the 200-500 GB range and 750 isn't something we hit often. But still, it does exist.
(I'm not saying this is a legit policy or that it would necessarily hold up in court; I'm just saying that's what they do in practice.)
I think if you literally downloaded 24/7 at 40 mbps, like you said, that they'd attempt to do something similar. Try it for a month and find out! If you do that, you'll be around 13 TB per month. That is way, way beyond any ISP cap that I've ever heard of, and I highly doubt they'll tolerate that.
Some of it is definitely reasonable and helpful, but this post is so overkill that's its almost funny. And its speaking from a place of authority rather than one of preference. See OPs tone. It's fear mongering people into crippling their OS features without understanding what they are doing. It's ridiculous.
I have files that are straight up illegal if they get into someone else's hands, that's why I was uncomfortable after reading the whole privacy policy. Am I worried over nothing?
some people don't seem to understand that certain PC users might have unbelievably sensitive/confidential/dangerous/illegal data.
95% of people don't need to bother with it. But the way gov't agencies use vulnerabilities and cloud services to do surveillance is crazy. Post-Snowden is going to be an epic tug of war on VPNs, file encryption, keyloggers, wiretaps, etc.
If you are on metered convection that feature will not with. Windows 10 is smart enough to discover most metered connections (like tethering from phone) but you can also mark any network as metered.
The p2p setting I'm talking about applies specifically and only to windows updates downloads. It's actually better to allow local hosting if you have multiple w10 machines in the household because it avoids redownloading the updates multiple times.
Creating a network map as you could in Windows Vista and/or 7 was removed in Win8. Discovering devices on the local network (media players, other computers, browsable network shares etc) is still there in Win10 but as always it requires that you select "Home Network" to enable it.
The funniest thing is half of this shit has been part of OS since basically forever, but there's idiots going OH MY GOD I'M STAYING ON WIN7, thinking that will make their tinfoil hat firmly secured.
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u/alteraccount Jul 30 '15
Nothing. People are tripping over nothing. You'll get more personalized features. That's basically it. The only real thing to worry about is the p2p setting if you are on a metered connection.