Torrent Trackers Ban Windows 10 Users Over Privacy Concerns
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 08/26/2015 04:15 AM
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Numerous reports indicate that torrent trackers are moving to ban Windows 10 over privacy issues.
Torrent trackers apparently are banning anyone running newly released Windows 10 due to concerns that the operating system is sharing data with Microsoft even when the settings are disabled.
An announcement on Reddit states that torrent tracker iTS has already banned Windows 10 users.
The announcement said: "Amongst other things windows 10 sends the contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers. Obviously this goes way too far and is a serious threat to sites like ours which is why we had to take measures."
It has been reported that torrent trackers BB and FSC are also considering a ban of Windows 10 users.
Source: SCMagazine
Torrent trackers apparently are banning anyone running newly released Windows 10 due to concerns that the operating system is sharing data with Microsoft even when the settings are disabled.An announcement on Reddit states that torrent tracker iTS has already banned Windows 10 users.
The announcement said: "Amongst other things windows 10 sends the contents of your local disks directly to one of their servers. Obviously this goes way too far and is a serious threat to sites like ours which is why we had to take measures."
It has been reported that torrent trackers BB and FSC are also considering a ban of Windows 10 users.
Source: SCMagazine
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