I'm a PC gamer. I have Windows 10 installed. If you think sticking with Windows 7, 8.1, or Vista, XP, 95, or whatever for that matter keeps you from the prying eyes of "the man"... You are wrong. Period. If you truly care about privacy go off the grid. I also care about privacy, but being a gamer and limited to Windows for the most part (lots of games, I have a problem, don't judge) I don't have a huge say in the matter. When I want to be more secure I use Linux on my laptop. I'm not condoning the state of things, I just don't want people to think that staying with an outdated OS will keep them "safe" because the fact is, it won't. Short of going completely off the grid, there's not a lot the average Joe can do about it. Oh, and you can uninstall Solitaire. I welcome any privacy tips in the comments for those interested.
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[–] dinosaurus 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
https://i.imgur.com/BsLARf3.jpg
This infographic may look like 4chan trash, but it raises several points why Win10 is worse than Win7.
If Win10 doesn't fail and microsoft continues to be a datacolection spy subagency then Linux is the future.
[–] PhishKill [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
I don't disagree, I truly hope Linux is the future (2015: year of linux, same as every other year) but if any government body asked MS for your info before, they'd have it in a heartbeat no matter which version of windows you have.