2y ago

How much data are your GPU drivers collecting about you? Quite a lot in Intel's case

www.techradar.com

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Can we just not live in a fucking dystopian world ?
- Has r/aboringdystopia made the move to federation?
- Not really sure how this is “dystopian”. Could you explain? It’s a beta program specifically for data collecting.
  
  Everything you own, everything you use collects data. I’m tired of being profiled and analysed. Even a GPU now collects data about me, where does it stop ?
- "WONT SOMEONE STOP THIS DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE OF BEING ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR A BETA THAT IS ACTUALLY A BETA AND REQUIRES ACTUAL DATA COLLECTION (THAT I CAN ACTUALLY OPT OUT OF IF I DONT WANT TO PARTICIPATE) TO ACTUAL DO ITS ACTUAL BETA JOB OF IMPROVING THE SOFTWARE?! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!11one!1"
  
  Ah yes, it will stay a Beta for ever and data collected will always be only for improvement. This is 100% sure, tech history has always been this way. There is no possible way to turn this otherwise.
- Thing is, there are alternatives but people settle for cheap and convenient. Lots of people hate Apple because of some odd contrarian marketing reason. Apple doesn’t do this. Linux is another option. Both are hugely better for regular people than Windows.
  
  Let’s be fair. Apple doesn’t do this quite so blatantly and egregiously, but they do it. They collect plenty of telemetry, and it’s getting harder to opt-out of/block it with their own chipsets.
  Edit: I say this as an Apple user.
These are BETA DRIVERS. The point of beta releases is data collection.
You can also simply opt out if you want.
Mountain out of a mole hill.
Don't install beta products if you don't want to partake in said beta.
Read what you're agreeing to and opt out of the data collection if you don't want to have your data collected.
- Saw a lot of posts on this topic, but this is the first time I am learning the drivers in question are Beta drivers.
  
  Yeah because it's harder to bitch and moan about data collection when you're opting in to a program that is literally for data collection.
- I'm opting out of your logic and sensical statements you bastard. Rabbo rabbo rabbo rabbo
Windows drivers only.
If you are on a spyware platform, what can you expect otherwise?
- Lol saved me a click thanks
- Damn. I was thinking: what the actual fuck, I escaped Windows and now this?
Laughs in Mesa
Can you imagine some marketing firm contacting intel to pay for the user data scraped by their customers GPUs?
Like how is that real.
The fact that Nvidia has been doing this for ages without opt-out (afaik) makes Intel look more humane in comparison.
There might be some bias involved based on the third paragraph:
The good news is that users can opt out of this data collection by deselecting it during the installation process. However, the process isn’t too straightforward either unlike AMD, which explicitly asks the user whether they want to opt out of data collection. Nvidia, however, enables and installs its Telemetry components by default and users are unable to opt out of it.
- How is it biased to point out whether you can disable telemetry and how simple it is to do so?
  
  To me, the article title is biased clickbait because it implies Intel is worse than the other GPU options. But Nvidia has been doing the same shit for years.
  But I'm not the person you replied to.
- Uh by stating how it is during installation of beta drivers from the competition is bias?

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