17Feb 2017 by Jim Blaich

Windows Launches IE Whenever a Network Connection is Made and Loads the MSN Site

computers, Google, Internet, Microsoft, privacy, Windows
Disabling advertisements is a normal thing these days.  There are many ways to do it.  Some are more detectable than others.  Some sites are more aggressive than others at detecting and reacting to it.  These sites should just accept that people are going to block their sites to rid themselves of ads. The ways to do it are via your router, via a block list that you add to a program that operates as a local domain name server where it checks lists of unwanted sites before allowing you to connect, and then there's the most detectable way which is through your browser with an addon called an adblocker.  Ublock Origin is the most common. The issue that I had earlier has to do with the fact that I use…
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07Jun 2016 by Jim Blaich

Microsoft as a company doesn’t recognize user’s privacy

Microsoft, privacy, Windows
This is taken from a post that explains your lack of privacy rights well beyond my ability to do so, so I'm posting it here in full. For this reason I do not run Microsoft software.  There are others such as the lack of adequate security and other protections.  All attributions apply.  The post is made in full without any corrections: IANAL. This answer is just a broad picture based on Microsoft's own words, as they were at the time of originally writing this (just after the final release of Windows 10). (more…)
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