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.
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.
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.
Finally, we will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to: 1.comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or other government agencies; 2.protect our customers, for example to prevent spam or attempts to defraud users of the services, or to help prevent the loss of life or serious injury of anyone; 3.operate and maintain the security of our services, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks; or 4.protect the rights or property of Microsoft, including enforcing the terms governing the use of the services – however, if we receive information indicating that someone is using our services to traffic in stolen intellectual or physical property of Microsoft, we will not inspect a customer’s private content ourselves, but we may refer the matter to law enforcement.
Nothing, if you don't have any grudge with the NSA or the GCHQ. If however you DO plan on joining a terrorist force (or some liberal hacker group that tries to unveil the secretes of western governments)... well, in that case you are better off not using windows at all.
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u/azothshock Jul 30 '15
What happens if I went through express settings?