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

submitted 1 year ago by igalmarino@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] nodiet@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it biased to point out whether you can disable telemetry and how simple it is to do so?

[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] PeachMan@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Claiming that Intel is not as shitty as Nvidia is pretty bold.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Uh by stating how it is during installation of beta drivers from the competition is bias?