Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.
Bless you AMD
AMD handles its version of CIP and Telemetry in arguably the most transparent manner. The installer of AMD Software Adrenalin presents the option to prevent its data-collection tool from being enabled at the completion of driver installation, regardless of whether you’ve chosen the “typical,” “driver only,” or “custom” install options. There’s an entire page of the installer dedicated to this, you see a large checkbox about data-collection that’s checked by default, but which you can uncheck, and complete installation.
How bout just don’t install privacy-invading data collection services alongside a fucking device driver at all.
They provide relevant system information for issues which some people are willing to provide. Why not let them?
Crash reports are one thing, but web browsing data and enumerating devices on your local network go well beyond that objective
From https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/topics/idsa-cip.html
Other devices in your computing environment
The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself, Includes universal plug and play devices and devices that broadcast
information to your computer on a local area network: for example, smart TV model and vendor information, and video streaming devices.
The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself, The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 30 categories. We do not collect URLs, web pages titles, or user-specific content without explicit permission from you.
Crash reports arent the only thing that is a result of a bug. Take for example, the bug involving high idle power consumption is not a crash related bug. The practical way to fix that is to juxtapose settings and conigurations of users receiving the said bug to see of its hardware or software related.
Because they invariably record way more data than they need to.
How do you think AMD fixes “bad drivers” that some people complain about.
By going through your browser history to figure out which pornsite messed with your driver obviously
I mean I don’t care as long as I can opt out and it’s clear how to.
I know. I don’t disagree. I’m just tired of everything being desperate to collect invasive amounts of information about me.
No argument here!
They collect:
The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself
The information collected includes categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites (i.e. social media, personal finance, or news). All site visits are classified into one of 30 categories. We do not collect URLs, web pages titles, or user-specific content without explicit permission from you.
Software usage: for example, frequency and duration of application usage such as Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, but not the application content itself such as specific actions or keyboard input.
Feature usage: for example, how much RAM you usually use or your laptop’s average battery life.
Other devices in your computing environment
Includes universal plug and play devices and devices that broadcast information to your computer on a local area network: for example, smart TV model and vendor information, and video streaming devices.
(the emphasis is mine, as is the minor reordering to not hide the browsing behaviour stuff at the bottom)
Yeah that’ll be a no from me there, bud.
A graphics card driver collecting the categories of websites you visit and the frequency of those visits?
This is some far overreaching BS right there!
They are just trying to scam data to resell. We need laws to restrict big tech and their deeply unethical obsession with hiding trackers. They are legitimately selling out their customers and relying on near monopolies to force compliance.
I’m usually ok with some data collection to get stats, like memory CPU usage, etc, especially if they are using it to figure out how to make their software more efficient… But this? Hard pass on this. Especially with collection of other devices on the lan. Wtf Intel?
Thank you to AMD for still requiring neither an account nor collecting data. Crash reports don’t count.
The Windows driver. If you’re using Windows, you’ve already declared that you’re okay with this kind of thing. This whole thread is people pissed about dress code violations at an orgy.
I still haven’t signed up my local windows account Into my Microsoft account, despite the nagging. I’ve opted out of everything I can and I have a encrypted, filtered dns to block tracking and ads system wide.
Just because some people use windows doesn’t mean they are ok with being tracked everywhere.
Unfortunately gaming is still just mostly easier on windows though Linux is making gains.
Yeah, I mean, I’m not telling anyone what they should do. If gaming is more important to you than privacy, game away, and don’t let anyone make you feel bad about it. Personally, it’s an easy call for me, mostly because so many games are playable now. There’s a few than I can’t run on Linux, and that’s fine, I just don’t play those. If no games ever worked… maybe that’s a harder call.
You’re right that this propably doesn’t make much of a difference to the average windows user, but this is a step towards normalizing data collection in broader areas of computing and I think that it’s good to keep up to date with stuff like this and where appropriate call it out (although it propably doesn’t make a huge difference to complain about it on lemmy to be honest)
Well there goes any consideration I had for getting an Arc GPU 🤷♂️
AMD it is
Exactly. A lot of people had the same reaction. And it’s totally understandable.
Enabled by default for their Beta drivers. The ones you opt-in to using.
Ok so it’s my fault that now someone at Intel knows how much porn I look at because I clicked “next” on a beta driver?
Believe or not, I still use core2duo CPU and GeForce 5300 and I run free operating system because newer technology contains shit
Companies don’t even try to spin it anymore. There is no reason any of us need this.
wow fuck that. how does one go about disabling it?
The installer has a checkbox for CIP, which is the data collection tool. Don’t install the CIP, and it won’t collect telemetry.
You can uninstall it like any other program.
Can someone please explain telemetry to me in this context? Is telemetry just a broad umbrella term for usage data or does it indicate a specific type of data or category of data?
Data that identifies your computer
