cyclone3d wrote on 2021-06-26, 02:36:At work locations, the users absolutely should not be given the choice of whether they update or not. […]
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At work locations, the users absolutely should not be given the choice of whether they update or not.
As for home users.... have you ever heard of botnets or viruses or other malware? What about cryptoware?
I agree that people should be educated about this... but who is going to educate them? Not like most people are going to take the time or even know that they need to know about these types of things until it is too late.
Maybe Microsoft can host free, public, mandatory classes for everybody on the whole planet. How would that work out?
Maybe people should not be allowed to own a computer before they have passed a class that teaches them such things. How exactly would that work out?
The best way currently to help protect these people is to make sure that their computers are required to update automatically when online.
If you think there is a better way then please tell me.
As for cookies, they aren't necessarily bad. They do help the companies know what parts of their sites are being used and what is not being used and how they are being used.
As a company, they have the right to choose how to run their company and what policies they require the users of their site to follow.
I have to disagree. I strongly defend that it should be 100% the user's choice. I understand it when its a computer owned by a company, one must comply with the company's policy on how to use it, because it's not his computer. It's up to him to accept that policy or not. Fortunately I am not in that situation and as an independent UI/UX Designer, I can work on my own mac, therefore my own rules.
But for home/personal users, it's a big, fat NO-NO. It's their choice, end period. It's the right thing to do. There are users of different skills, not every computer user is dumb enough to "click where he shouldn't on a website", therefore choice must be given, they should assess the risks of each choice by themselves. I want to be able to choose not to be tracked, when to update, and not to have my personal data collected for their big fat database to sell it to companies for ads or [ironic]for an election[/ironic]. And Windows 10 fails to give that choice to me. If it's enforced in future releases, then I will use my power of choice and choose not to use that operating system.
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As for the cookies, sorry, but when they says it will track my activities while using Skype, its another big, fat, NO-NO. I do not want to be tracked, period. So, again with the power of choice, I choose not to use their software, and I will use something else.
Cookies are bad, they should not be enforced, they should be an user choice. Even the "essential cookies" are bad. They are one of the worst things ever invented for the www in the last 20 years. But this is something for another thread, here we are talking about Windows 11.
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