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PSA: Intel Graphics Drivers Now Collect Telemetry By Default (www.techpowerup.com)
submitted 1 year ago by clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Intel graphic drivers collect Telemetry By default in windows.

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[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

How bout just don’t install privacy-invading data collection services alongside a fucking device driver at all.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They provide relevant system information for issues which some people are willing to provide. Why not let them?

[–] dan@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Because they invariably record way more data than they need to.

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you think AMD fixes "bad drivers" that some people complain about.

[–] uzay@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

By going through your browser history to figure out which pornsite messed with your driver obviously

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean I don’t care as long as I can opt out and it’s clear how to.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. I don’t disagree. I’m just tired of everything being desperate to collect invasive amounts of information about me.

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

No argument here!

[–] dan@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 1 year ago

categorized web browsing history that shows how long and how often you visited specific categories of sites

Wow. This is not telemetry; this is just data collection for ad targeting or selling to data brokers like Acxiom.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] thecodemonk@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] TheTimeKnife@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] pkulak@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enabled by default for their Beta drivers. The ones you opt-in to using.

[–] dan@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] skycat@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Believe or not, I still use core2duo CPU and GeForce 5300 and I run free operating system because newer technology contains shit

[–] steakmeout@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh great for you, I guess?

[–] luciole@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Stretching older tech to skip the new one because it includes shit is a worthy strategy. Also, chatting about specs is going to happen in a technology community. I don't see why you're mocking the commenter like they're oversharing.

[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wow fuck that. how does one go about disabling it?

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

The installer has a checkbox for CIP, which is the data collection tool. Don’t install the CIP, and it won’t collect telemetry.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

You can uninstall it like any other program.

[–] Snapz@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] BloodForTheBloodGod@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Data that identifies your computer

[–] hoodatninja@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Companies don’t even try to spin it anymore. There is no reason any of us need this.

[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 2 points 1 year ago

Opensource FTW

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 year ago

Can you still get driver updates via Windows Update to avoid all the bloatware the regular downloads come with? That used to be the way to get "clean" drivers.