This is AFTER debloating all the MS bs as much as I can.
The amount of MS telemetry is just mindboggling.
While telemetry is bad the problem here is probably that this windows service pings the server but doesn’t get a response because it got stuck in your pihole. So it tries to pings again and again and again and again…
Is there a service whit which you can automatially send fake answers to certain events?
Exponential backoff is baked in most libraries. So probably not.
Sure but if they’re trying to send new requests while the others are still retrying, then it will result in the same thing
Well blocking these calls obviously inflates the numbers due to retries.
Don’t get fooled by the insane amount of hits, when it’s not reachable it will try over and over
Which could in turn make their pc run worse because it’ll constantly be retrying telemetry calls
I recently switched my main desktop from windows to linux, and now my download speeds are much faster. I guess now I know why. 😬
Yeah, I recently did it for a lab and it was… interesting.
My Ubuntu VM wasn’t particularly great either but it was the one that my uni provided
Devil’s advocate: basically the only proper way to figure out how people are using your product and how you can tweak it to achieve its goal is by firing events and including relevant metadata such as how much time they spent on a screen or how far they scrolled. Telemetry is not necessarily “evil” by default.
Also, Firefox, lemmys beloved browser, sends telemetry by default. You have to dig through menus you didn’t know existed to even find out, and then disable.
Not only to Mozilla, but third parties as well.
Sure it’s scummy, but it’s definitely not hidden. When you open the settings page Data Collection is a top level option
It’s hidden in the fact it’s not presented upon first startup, it never mentions it, and it’s at the very bottom of the settings page.
You have to discover it. And who knows how long you had it enabled before you find it.
Join us… become Linux nerd, never look back. Hate that the one or two software you use that has no viable equivalent is either super janky or doesn’t work on wine even though tons of games outperform windows… with the windows build.
Or battle telemetry for several years until you get forced to subscribe to win 12.
Only reason I use Win 11 is a single proprietary DRM software I have to deal with on a daily basis. I find almost everything more comfortable in Linux than Windows. I also don’t play games so it’s honestly painless.
As someone who has designed and used telemetry systems, I’ll never quite understand the strong aversion some people have to them. Telemetry is what lets me tell my boss “yes people really do use our software this way and we can’t break it” or “90% of crashes happen right after the player uses a grenade”. And despite what some conspiracy theorists would have you believe, telemetry data for software from reputable companies does not get sold or used for marketing purposes. Our lawyers make sure of it, and also make us go through privacy reviews to make sure that data isn’t leaking PII.
As a programmer: “your data is boring. I am not interested in leveraging this for anything besides getting the service you are using to work as well as possible”
Also me as a programmer: “yo, you don’t need that data, stop asking for it. Ohh, your app is broken because it can’t access permissions? Yeet.”
It’s not about what the programmers want, it’s about the sales and marketing departments. They are the ones who use and abuse that data
As a UI designer, no it’s not just them. We need to know how people are using features to know if we should prioritise or deprioritise work on them and what work we might want to put in them.
We need to know how people are using features to know if we should prioritise or deprioritise work on them and what work we might want to put in them.
So ask them to take the survey, instead of spying on them.
