ShutUp10, protecting your privacy
Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2017 11:46 amEvery smart company wants to know all about you.
But sometimes you'd like to keep just a little bit of privacy.
Some things are up to you. If you use Google, Bing, MSNBC, etc they're going to get as much info out of you as possible.
And if you use Windows 10, you're using a OS from a company that makes part of it's money from selling your info to other companies.
True, some of that data is stripped of info directly identifying you. But not always. SOME "features" are provided for other companies to track/identify you.
At other times, however, you NEED to share info, such as with your bank.
One way of having a little privacy is through an internet anonymizer.
Not always perfect. If you use an anonymizer while connecting to you bank account on the internet you may be locked out of your account. Not so good, but then again, they are protecting your money.
Back to Your Privacy
Unless you're obsessed with Win 10 and your privacy, you probably won't know everything to turn off. Most maybe, but not all.
Enter ShutUP10 from O&O software.
Just download and run this program. It doesn't install, which I think is quite nice.
It'll provide a list of ON/OFF choices that you can click on to see an explanation about that item.
And, yes, you can make a bad, if not a terminal, choice, so do read it before turning off everything on the list.
Giving credit where credit is due, I found out about it from - Puget Systems Online Help Guides.
They have a ton(ne) of free info, and best of all - They date them all.
If the info/article is old they put up a large red warning statement that it might be out of date
An example = SATA 3Gb/s vs. 6Gb/s Cable Performance (Revisited)
It drives me crazy (a short trip anyway you look at it) to see a supposedly technical article, only to find that it was written in 2003 or even older.
In any case, Puget Systems has my respect.
But sometimes you'd like to keep just a little bit of privacy.
Some things are up to you. If you use Google, Bing, MSNBC, etc they're going to get as much info out of you as possible.
And if you use Windows 10, you're using a OS from a company that makes part of it's money from selling your info to other companies.
True, some of that data is stripped of info directly identifying you. But not always. SOME "features" are provided for other companies to track/identify you.
At other times, however, you NEED to share info, such as with your bank.
One way of having a little privacy is through an internet anonymizer.
Not always perfect. If you use an anonymizer while connecting to you bank account on the internet you may be locked out of your account. Not so good, but then again, they are protecting your money.
Back to Your Privacy
Unless you're obsessed with Win 10 and your privacy, you probably won't know everything to turn off. Most maybe, but not all.
Enter ShutUP10 from O&O software.
Just download and run this program. It doesn't install, which I think is quite nice.
It'll provide a list of ON/OFF choices that you can click on to see an explanation about that item.
And, yes, you can make a bad, if not a terminal, choice, so do read it before turning off everything on the list.
Giving credit where credit is due, I found out about it from - Puget Systems Online Help Guides.
They have a ton(ne) of free info, and best of all - They date them all.
If the info/article is old they put up a large red warning statement that it might be out of date
An example = SATA 3Gb/s vs. 6Gb/s Cable Performance (Revisited)
It drives me crazy (a short trip anyway you look at it) to see a supposedly technical article, only to find that it was written in 2003 or even older.
In any case, Puget Systems has my respect.