Privacy @lemmy.ml Ignacio @lemmy.ml 11mo ago

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

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

Intel's GPU drivers will get a hold of a lot of user data

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Can we just not live in a fucking dystopian world ?
- Has r/aboringdystopia made the move to federation?
- "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.
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?
Can you imagine some marketing firm contacting intel to pay for the user data scraped by their customers GPUs?

Like how is that real.
Laughs in Mesa
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?
The fact that Nvidia has been doing this for ages without opt-out (afaik) makes Intel look more humane in comparison.

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