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Windows itself is well known for a wide range of telemetry, but your favorite browser and your preferred antivirus probably use this as well, as do a growing range of other products. Categories of products supported by Spybot Anti-Beacon are Windows, Antivirus, Games, Office, OEM & Drivers and generic Third Party Analytics.
Here at Safer-Networking, we are very conscious of the environment and contributing towards a sustainable future, for human and machine. For this reason, we have included a Carbon Emissions tracker to give you an indication of how much carbon is being used through each attempted connection and how much you can save by blocking them.
Windows and other companies are constantly trying to revert the changes made by Anti-Beacon and similar software. Every time you restart your PC, Updates Windows or updates apps, or bring your laptop for a walk, some or all of the good work done by Anti-Beacon can be undone, without you knowing, leaving you unprotected when you thought the door was locked.
Transparency of this tracking is lacking. The installer submits every page change of its user interface to a Lavasoft server, including installation and machine identification numbers and further system information. Their privacy policy does not mention this transmission of data.
Referencing other AdAware software, the Privacy Policy admits to collect data during installation, but tries to describe the IP address as not tracing back to a user. Contrary to that, in the European Union, IP addresses are recognized as Personally Identifiable Information.
"We automatically collect information about your interactions with the Services as well as devices on which the Services are installed. In some cases, we automatically collect information about other devices connected to the same network as the device on which the Services are installed."
Application Insights, a feature of Azure Monitor, is an extensible Application Performance Management (APM) service for developers and DevOps professionals. Use it to monitor your live applications. It will automatically detect performance anomalies, and includes powerful analytics tools to help you diagnose issues and to understand what users actually do with your app.
Data about how a customer organization uses the VMware product. Examples include details about which features the customer organization uses and metrics of user interface activity.
Performance Data
Data about the performance of VMware products. Examples include metrics of the performance and scale of VMware products, response times for user interfaces, and details about customer API calls.
Product Logs
These are logs that are generated during the active deployment of VMware products. Typically, product logs record systems events and state during product operations in a semi-structured or unstructured form. This data is only collected under the Enhanced participation level.
Such information is collected in association with customer identifying information (e.g. customer assigned license key(s), customer IDs, and entitlement account numbers relating to the customer) via a variety of automated means. Limited personal data may be collected, depending on the product and level of participation (Standard or Enhanced). Typically, this personal data only identifies the Customer IT administrator who operates the product for the customer. Customers should not enter personal data or sensitive personal data (or any other information that may allow an individual to be identified) when naming systems such as their hosts, VMs, or dashboards. To the extent we collect personal data, we will process it in accordance with our Privacy and Service Notices.
Microsoft Edge saves your browsing history, which is made up of info about the websites you visit, on your device. If the Diagnostics data setting is set to Full, this browsing history is sent to Microsoft, which helps us find and fix problems and improve our products and services for all users. If you choose to turn on Tailored experiences, we will use this browsing history to personalize your experiences with Windows and other products and services. Separately, if you choose to enable browsing history within the Cortana Notebook Permissions, your browsing history is also sent to Microsoft so Cortana can help personalize your experience.
By default, and depending on the device configuration, Microsoft Edge gathers basic diagnostic data about the books in the Books Library and sends it to Microsoft. Enabling this policy gathers and sends both basic and additional diagnostic data, such as usage data.
Starting with Firefox 80, Firefox pings the server location.services.mozilla.com on each start to determine the users country based on his or her IP address. According to Mozillas documentation, this is used to display relevant content and pick a search engine fitting the users country. Users who do not want Firefox to store and use their country can disable it through this immunizer.
When you view or click on a sponsored shortcut, Firefox sends anonymized technical data to our partner through a Mozilla-owned proxy service. The code for this proxy service is available on GitHub for interested technical audiences. This data does not include any personally identifying information and is only shared when you click on a sponsored shortcut.
Opera SiteCheck is a security feature of Opera browsers submitting the domain name of every visited website to Opera to check if it may contain fraud. This even happens in private browsing mode. Google Safe Browsing is actually much better in terms of privacy by verifying domains locally.
At the same time, there are plenty of connections to insights-collector.gog.com, without information on what is done with this data. The option to remove this data with a single click was not found at the time of adding this immunizer.
The Wacom software driver will collect a sample of information such as the pen tablet models, how customers use our hardware and the names of the software applications being used when a Wacom device is in use, and the Wacom Desktop Center and Wacom Tablet Properties control panel (Windows) or Wacom Tablet preferences pane (macOS) will collect basic app usage data.
Cortana is Microsofts voice assistant. To be able to give you answers on your personal data, it needs access to it. If you do not intend to use Cortana, we recommend that you use this immunizer to disable it.
Enterprise customers can manage their Windows activation status with volume licensing using an on-premises Key Management Server. You can opt out of sending KMS client activation data to Microsoft automatically by doing one of the following
Windows Recall is a Windows feature that records screenshots during your computer use, extracts any texts and stores them in a separate database, and allows you to browse this history, see Microsoft Windows 11: Retrace your steps with Recall.
When you choose to participate in the CEIP, your computer or device automatically sends information to Microsoft about how you use certain products. Information from your computer or device is combined with other CEIP data to help Microsoft solve problems and to improve the products and features customers use most often.
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