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Windows 10 only has a year of support: 12 months left to keep Copilot off your desktop or learn Linux (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Right, and Valve accounts for people choosing to not take the survey. That's just how polls are typically conducted.

[–] pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You know valve isn't Microsoft right? Those are two different companies with different agendas?

Steam asking for consent for a survey doesn't make up for the lack of consent in updates pushed by an entirely different entity

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, and I'm not talking about Microsoft here. That's why I only quoted the part about Valve's stats and pointed out that it's not necessarily an issue that users can opt-out of that statistics collection.