Sunday, November 6th 2016

NVIDIA Telemetry Spooks Privacy-sensitive Users, How to Disable it

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Over the past few versions of NVIDIA GeForce drivers, the company has been bundling a telemetry tool that is enabled by default, auto-runs on Windows startup by default, and doesn't appear in the list of things you can choose not to install, when doing a custom-installation with NVIDIA GeForce driver installers. Very little is known about this new Telemetry component. For all we know, it could be a means for NVIDIA to collect crash-reports that help it improve its drivers down the line. Not everyone is convinced with this explanation.

Spanning across three separate startup tasks (a bit much for a crash reporter?), Telemetry is allegedly a means for NVIDIA to send data "back and forth." Users that are the privacy equivalent of germ-freaks might see this as a means for NVIDIA to spy on its users, for a plethora of data, such as usage patterns, etc. MajorGeeks posted a brief tutorial on how to disable Telemetry (and other bloatware included in NVIDIA drivers), using Sysinternals, but you can use Task Manager, msconfig, or Registry Editor to disable these as well.
Source: MajorGeeks

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69 Comments on NVIDIA Telemetry Spooks Privacy-sensitive Users, How to Disable it

#51
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterYa, gonna have to agree with the fluffmeister. You're being a drama queen and showing a lack of maturity.
No one else has even mentioned amd in the thread. Call out amd, have bs called and that person is immature... Yep that's what real fanboyism is to a T.
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#52
lexluthermiester
cdawallNo one else has even mentioned amd in the thread. Call out amd, have bs called and that person is immature... Yep that's what real fanboyism is to a T.
fluffmeister's comment was very clearly humorous in nature. But he was also referring to the fact that AMD is not using live telemetry at all, and even it's crash reports are optional.

And instead of showing dignity, the maturity of an adult and just letting it go, you retort with an insult. Thank you for proving my point. Anything else?
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#53
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterfluffmeister's comment was very clearly humorous in nature. But he was also referring to the fact that AMD is not using live telemetry at all, and even it's crash reports are optional.

And instead of showing dignity, the maturity of an adult and just letting it go, you retort with an insult. Thank you for proving my point. Anything else?
Ah shoot I appear to have missed the [/sarcasm] header. Phew good thing text through a forum is so easy to tell especially when it wasn't humorous from the beginning.
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#54
lexluthermiester
cdawallAh shoot I appear to have missed the [/sarcasm] header. Phew good thing text through a forum is so easy to tell especially when it wasn't humorous from the beginning.
I understood his humor without the [/sarcasm] header. But that was because of his choice of vocabulary. You made a good point, conversation in forums and text communication in general can be difficult because there is no way to infer vocal inflection. However, choice of vocabulary can help solve that problem. fluff was choosing his words to imply humor, which was easy to pick up on. In future, try to put yourself in the place of the issuer of the statement and see if you interpret their message the right way based on how you might say things.
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#55
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
There is still literally zero humor in his text hence my comment. No idea what lines you have to read between to see it? Maybe it's something in the telemetry of the drivers. I'll have to log in with my NV box and see if it reads differently.
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#56
lexluthermiester
cdawallThere is still literally zero humor in his text hence my comment. No idea what lines you have to read between to see it? Maybe it's something in the telemetry of the drivers. I'll have to log in with my NV box and see if it reads differently.
Oh, I see. Ok then.
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#57
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterOh, I see. Ok then.
Yea just tried with a whole stack of 980Ti's not a single one highlighted the humor in green. Darn my luck, must have just been a troll baiting bad post.
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#58
lexluthermiester
cdawallYea just tried with a whole stack of 980Ti's not a single one highlighted the humor in green. Darn my luck, must have just been a troll baiting bad post.
Are you done yet?
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#59
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterAre you done yet?
Not quite. Goal was to double your post count in this thread alone.
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#60
lexluthermiester
cdawallNot quite. Goal was to double your post count in this thread alone.
And?
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#61
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterAnd?
We are almost there.
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#62
lexluthermiester
cdawallWe are almost there.
Clearly, your counting skills are impressive. Anything more you wish to "WOW" us all with?
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#63
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterClearly, your counting skills are impressive. Anything more you wish to "WOW" us all with?
I have done one beer for every post you have made? :toast: :laugh:
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#64
lexluthermiester
cdawallI have done one beer for every post you have made? :toast: :laugh:
So you're drunk then? LOL!
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#65
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
lexluthermiesterSo you're drunk then? LOL!
I would say mildly intoxicated at best.
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#67
R-T-B
lexluthermiesterSorry, you are incorrect. I also use custom install options and exclude GFE. Just looked at my driver setup, and the telemetry is not present. Looked in the startup entries and the registry, also not present.

NVidia is not so stupid as to pull a Microsoft and go behind peoples backs like that. We would roast them for it!
It was later confirmed by me and others to act that way on Win8/10 only, oddly.

I'm guessing you are on 7? I did a lot of fresh installs to investigate this, and people here know me way better here than to lie about something like this.
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#68
lexluthermiester
R-T-BIt was later confirmed by me and others to act that way on Win8/10 only, oddly.

I'm guessing you are on 7? I did a lot of fresh installs to investigate this, and people here know me way better here than to lie about something like this.
AH! Yes, that's true. I am on 7. But I also run 10 on a system with a Geforce card in it, but have removed all of the telemetry services and runtimes, which is likely why I haven't seen it there either.
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#69
lexluthermiester
Prima.Vera^-- You guys are married?? :) :) :)
LOL! Um, no. And eww..
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