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

Prima.Vera said:
My bigger concern is not on privacy, but on how much/many resources this real-time telemetry is pulling? And I'm talking about CPU, RAM, GPU even network bandwidth. Anyone knows some numbers?
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Privacy needs to be a concern for everyone. Thanks for the quote from the Nvidia forums.

To answer your question, if it is not running, it is not using system resources. Simple as that. As the picture in the OP shows, you can run the Autoruns manager in the "Sysinternals Suite" to check if it's running and disable/delete it if found. The suite can be found here; https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx
 
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lexluthermiester said:
Ya, gonna have to agree with the fluffmeister. You're being a drama queen and showing a lack of maturity.
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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.
 
cdawall said:
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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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?
 
lexluthermiester said:
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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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.
 
cdawall said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
cdawall said:
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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Oh, I see. Ok then.
 
lexluthermiester said:
Oh, I see. Ok then.
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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.
 
^-- You guys are married?? :) :) :)
 
lexluthermiester said:
Sorry, 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!
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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.
 
R-T-B said:
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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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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