However, it notes it helps companies understand what their customers like via "visitation patterns" that include web tags and cookies. The company's website is laughably bereft of content. In the video, it's blocked by default by uBlock Origin as an ad-tracking site. The next one is labeled (Opens in a new window), which is listed as an internet trends research company. This is on a clean install of Windows 11, in case it needs repeating. We can't get that one to resolve, but it's apparently owned by McAfee (Opens in a new window). There was what looks like a geolocation server for Microsoft, something about Google, and then the appearance of third-party servers. The host continues scrolling, though, and the requests become more troubling. The first requests are innocuous: images from Microsoft and an Akamai server. The traffic in Wireshark was filtered by DNS to examine requests to external servers. The test was performed on a new Windows 11 laptop booted for the first time with nothing installed. On a clean installation of Windows 11, the list is quite long, and that's putting it mildly. This allowed it to see what external servers were being contacted by the OS immediately after the first boot. Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer (Opens in a new window) that shows communication across a network. ![]() The difference in telemetry requests over this 22-year period is striking.Ī YouTube channel called The PC Security Channel (Opens in a new window) set up Wireshark on clean installs of both OSes. One security researcher has gone to the trouble of studying what kind of requests it sends on a clean installation and compared it with Windows XP from 2001. Now that Windows 11 is gaining traction, people are examining it more closely. On the operating system front, Windows 10 was already seen as a somewhat invasive OS compared with its predecessors. ![]() Over the past few years, privacy has become a hot-button topic-and it's only accelerating, with all the recent news about Google, Meta, and even Apple allegedly gathering information on users surreptitiously.
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