{"id":8645,"date":"2016-07-29T22:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T02:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2016-07-29T22:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T02:29:25","slug":"microsoft-is-even-worse-than-i-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/microsoft-is-even-worse-than-i-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is even worse than I thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/microsoft\/\">the problem with Microsoft<\/a> in that it installs Windows 10 without asking you. But Microsoft is even worse than I thought. There are some truly shocking and disgusting privacy settings that are automatically turned on. Some of them are easy to find if you don&#8217;t do the default installation, but others are in more difficult to find spots. If you or anyone you know has Windows 10, I urge you to read this web page and turn off those settings:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/bitwise\/2015\/08\/windows_10_privacy_problems_here_s_how_bad_they_are_and_how_to_plug_them.html\">Broken Windows Theory<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article is written by David Auerbach and appears on Bitwise, which is part of Slate.com. After you&#8217;ve taken care of that important business, you might want to read some of his other articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently talked about the problem with Microsoft in that it installs Windows 10 without asking you. But Microsoft is even worse than I thought. There are some truly shocking and disgusting privacy settings that are automatically turned on. Some of them are easy to find if you don&#8217;t do the default installation, but others [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8647,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}