NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers - How To Disable It
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PrMinisterGR
As long as it's only keeping performance/compatibility statistics without personal identification (and yes, it is possible to do that), it's a smart move.
lucidus
The only change I want nvidia to make is to remove the forced login from GFE 3.
KissSh0t
What is the purpose of telemetry for a video card driver?
snip3r_3
Extraordinary
I think driver telemetry could be a good thing, leaving mine enabled
Agent-A01
Extraordinary
Before telemetry: People experience a bug, they see a BSOD, or stuttering, or a certain part of Windows doesn't work anymore / game crashes
They report to NVIDIA/AMD
NVIDIA/AMD can not reproduce
End user can not explain the problem in enough detail because they can only see the outcome of the bug
Bug remains in subsequent drivers for months and people start flooding forums with angry posts about the same bug still causing the same problem driver after driver
After telemetry: (In theory) - NVIDIA/AMD see a detailed report of the bug and the cause coming in from a whole range of different setups in real-time, quickly get it fixed for the next driver release / issue a hotfix without having to pull teeth from end-user who can only describe the symptoms
(.)(.)
BangTail
TheDeeGee
Extraordinary
Denial
I don't mind them adding driver telemetry - I just feel like they should have been opened/talked about it, what they are collecting, why they are collecting it and how it's going to help the driver program.. before they just shoved it into a driver.
I kind of wish Nvidia was just more open/communicable in general about it's drivers/future plans. My experience in the past year or so with their stuff has been less then stellar.
Corrupt^
PrMinisterGR
-Tj-
I dont have that since I never install gfe and all that extra bloatware, for me they can add even more bloatware and I'll happily delete all before I press install driver setup.exe. 😀
Mufflore
PrMinisterGR
BarryB
Anyone seen this in section 3. of the EULA on the 375.70 drivers:
The issue here is that to install the drivers you have automatically agreed to having your personally identifiable data taken by Nvidia, which part is taking that data is probably GFE but who knows what else is sending data back to Nvidia?
Mufflore
Labyrinth
Telemetry is fine, as long as they inform you, Mozilla does this, soon as you run the browser.