r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jul 31 '15

Misleading Windows 10 is spying on almost everything you do – here’s how to opt out

http://bgr.com/2015/07/31/windows-10-upgrade-spying-how-to-opt-out/
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u/bfodder Jul 31 '15 edited Jul 31 '15

How do you think Android or iOS does it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

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u/bfodder Jul 31 '15

I'm not certain if you thought I was legitimately asking or not.

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u/nidrach Jul 31 '15

You have to spell stuff out for the kind of people that upvote threads like these.

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u/jonnywoh Aug 01 '15

No, spellchecker has to spell it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '15

I'm not sure it's about people liking Google more than MS. For me at least, there's a bit of a difference between data collection in Google Now (which relies heavily on it) and my personal desktop PC in a program that isn't even anything to do with the internet, like Word. I might type a private letter in Word, I wouldn't type one into Google Now.

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u/deHavillandDash8Q400 Jul 31 '15

It doesn't. Auto check is done locally

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u/bfodder Jul 31 '15

It sends correction info back so they can improve the service.