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In a forthcoming Windows 10 release, Microsoft will let you view the telemetry data that the OS collects via a new Windows 10 app called Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer.
Microsoft announced its commitment to "be fully transparent on the diagnostic data collected" from Windows devices today and the release of the application adds options to Windows 10 to view collected Telemetry data.
Microsoft says that it wants to increase trust and confidence, and give users increased control over the data.
[...] You need Windows 10 build 17083 or newer to access the new data viewer. You can access the tool with a tap on Windows-I to open the Settings application, and the selection of Privacy > Diagnostics & feedback in the window that opens.
[...] Diagnostic Data Viewer is a Windows application to review Telemetry (diagnostic) data that Microsoft collects on the device to send it to company servers for analysis.
Note: Microsoft notes that enabling the feature may require up to 1 Gigabyte of additional hard drive space for storage.
A click on the button launches the application's Microsoft Store page on first run. You need to install the application from there before it becomes available.
[...] You find options to export the data to CSV files and to open the Privacy Dashboard on the Internet and the Privacy Settings on the local device as well there.
Search functionality is available which you use to find specific event data. The app returns event data that matches the entered text. Type your name, email addresses, PC name, IP address or any other data that you can think of to run searches across all Telemetry data that Microsoft collected on the device.
While you may use the search for that, you may click on any event listed in the sidebar to access it directly. The data is quite extensive, especially if Telemetry data collecting is set to full and not to basic. I had hundreds of events listed on the Windows 10 Insider build PC after the update to the most recent version. It will take some time to go through the information.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday January 26 2018, @01:59PM (6 children)
And rereading your post, AC, I see you actually are holding the customer accountable to some degree - sorry I missed that. But the situation still obtains - how much more is it "ethical" to require a customer to pay because Freedom? And that assumes they have an alternative.
I know the times when I choose proprietary, it's either because I do not have any choice - the software I need has no open-source equivalent, or because I must have functionality that the open source package does not include. The best analogy I have is using DuckDuckGo versus Google. I want to support DuckDuckGo, but every time I use it on a search and then use Google, Google delivers the best results to me. And I don't have the time to always search both. So what do I do? If it's an "important search" I use Google, even though I really dislike having to do so.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday January 26 2018, @03:37PM (4 children)
I just plain switched to DuckDuckGo. They'll get better and the likely reason Google is giving You better results is due to the fundamental reason I use DuckDuckGo. That pesky thing called tracking.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 26 2018, @08:51PM
I actually generally get better results with duckduckgo, because I block everything Google stop they don't have the relevant info except what they get off my phone which is usually garbage.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 30 2018, @01:57PM (2 children)
I wish DuckDuckGo every success, but let's not kid ourselves: right now, it's nowhere near as good as Google. It's not even close. Fire up private browsing and compare:
Google search for D without garbage collection [google.com]
DuckDuckGo search for D without garbage collection [duckduckgo.com]
Half the DuckDuckGo results pertain to Java, Rust, Lua, C#, Unity, git, SSDs, language-agnostic GC research, or even to neighbourhood waste collection. All but one of Google's first-page of results are directly related to the search.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:16PM (1 child)
Google started a decade earlier and has no qualms about selling your data to the highest bidder. They are slightly less invasive than Facebook, but Facebook doesn't have that Do No Evil mantra. There's a Lot of gray area in that Do No Evil mantra. Considering DuckDuckGo has 40 employees (wikipedia) and Google has 73,992 employees (wikipedia), I would say DuckDuckGo is doing really well. DuckDuckGo may never be "as good" as Google when it comes to doing a search and I'm okay with that. Especially, if the price is invasion of privacy.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:35PM
Yes, I understand the privacy case for DuckDuckGo, but we were talking about the quality of the search results.
Personally, I find the cost in quality to be high enough that there's no way I'd make the switch. Again though, I really hope it improves.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 27 2018, @03:38PM
Another DDG user chiming in. What helps tremendously with getting the results you want is using search operators. It seems that Google's search algorithm guesses the most likely search operators in a given query, saving you some typing and actually formulating your input properly. But I seldom leave DDG search unsatisfied and look for what Google has to offer instead. Usually, Google is ahead in searching for people or merchants selling a specific item, which is where I sometimes have to fall back on using that ominous Kraken of a "search engine".
There is also Startpage as an alternative, it incorporates Google's results.