Random Rants 61

[Takhisis]

So, no ads and they're not government agencies… why would they want to keep records of everything you do, then?

 

[bhavv]

For marketing and survey reasons.

 

[Takhisis]

Keeping a copy of my email password would fit… marketing reasons? Or survey ones?

 

[bhavv]

That's for quicker logging in.

 

[sophie]

I'm not sure what you mean, I don't get any ads in windows 10.

That's why it's called a hypothetical

 

[Takhisis]

You still haven't said how ‘quicker logging in’ fits marketing or survey reasons.

 

[bhavv]

It doesnt. I gave you reason for it.

 

[Commodore]

What's to fear if you have nothing to hide?

No one cares about your porn collection.

It's not about fear. It's about me having the right to keep my life private if I so choose. Why does MS's "marketing and survey reasons" trump my right to privacy?

 

[Flying Pig]

So, no ads and they're not government agencies… why would they want to keep records of everything you do, then?

Market research? If they know that people use Word twice as often as Excel, that's going to inform their development and promotion of those profits.

 

[azzaman333]

I'm so effed. Kill me know plox.

 

[Snerk]

.

 

[Borachio]

I'm so effed. Kill me know plox.

No need. In the long term you're doomed anyway.

 

[azzaman333]

No need. In the long term you're doomed anyway.

That is true.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Nobody ever votes in my Twitter polls

 

[Takhisis]

I don't have a Twitter account.

Market research? If they know that people use Word twice as often as Excel, that's going to inform their development and promotion of those profits.

And if I decided to use another office suite?

 

[bhavv]

Can the same cold virus relapse? I got another cold just 3 weeks after my last one, but its clearing up a lot faster and isn't as bad.

 

[shadowplay]

I wish Paul McCartney would bugger off already.

 

[Flying Pig]

And if I decided to use another office suite?

Well, that too, though I doubt they're going to 'accidentally' slip in the wrong thing to Windows Update as a punishment: they might step up their advertising though.

 

[Lohrenswald]

Nobody ever votes in my Twitter polls

Make polls with different options

 

[Snerk]

Your polls are to die for..