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Xenostar on 08 October 2013
kowenicki said:


I wasnt talking about my posts, I was talking about the fact that the OP has been exposed as bullshit lies.


So you can turn of ads fully and ad data collection?



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irstupid on 08 October 2013

From how I understood it, is the the kinect will read your signals somehow whether your watching commercial and if it excites you or if you ignore it, ect.

THEN the advertises can determine if they made a good or shitty commercial.

I don't see this as them being able to somehow force ads down our throats. Unless its something like youtube where it plays a commercial before teh video, then it could determine what commercials you would LIKE to watch.

But isn't that a good thing? If I HAVE to watch a commercial I woudl rather it be about Best Buy than about Tampax.



Xenostar on 08 October 2013
kowenicki said:
Xenostar said:
kowenicki said:


I wasnt talking about my posts, I was talking about the fact that the OP has been exposed as bullshit lies.


So you can turn of ads fully and ad data collection?


Well you can turn Kinect off for a start.


Takes care of data collection then, blocking an ad server is fairly easy. 



Damnyouall on 08 October 2013
Xenostar said:
kowenicki said:
wtf is wrong with people?

EXACTLY like every site you visit and browser you use. EXACTLY like every opt out button you tick on all those sites you buy from.


The point is why are there adverts at all, every site i visit has adverts to pay for it to exist, Why when you pay for a premium device, pay a yearly sub and pay for each piece of content you consume on said device is it doing any ads that arent related to its own store. i dont want to opt out of targeted ads i want to opt out of all ads and data collection.

I am really glad that at least one other person in this thread got it, despite the best efforts of our resident shills and corporate apologists. :D
Good going, Xenostar!

Why indeed should a fricking video game console use an infrared 3D camera to mine commercially usable personal data? Correct answer: It shouldn't.

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"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

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SxyxS on 08 October 2013
ToraReaper said:
Well, i preordered one, and in my country our laws protect us from this shit, dont need to opt out, they cant collect shit without making it clear and asking me beforehand.


Would you mind telling me the name of your country .I'd really like to know where and how they have protected you from nsa backdoors inside windows in the past 20 years and what they will exactly do if they realise that they have collected data?Will there be a 300.000 dollar fine which will make ms laugh



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landguy1 on 08 October 2013

They have stated a number of times that NO INFORMATION from Kinect leaves your XB1 without your permission. The device is technically always on, but is in a standby mode where the camera is off(power saving) until commanded to wake up. The "data collection" is when the Kinect camera is turned on and the actual scan of the physical space sends the "data" to the XB1 to be interpreted. Therefore it is "collecting data" to determine what you want it to do next. That doesn't mean it is sending the info anywhere or storing data to be sent or used outside of what it was being used for up to that minute.



Damnyouall on 08 October 2013
SxyxS said:
ToraReaper said:
Well, i preordered one, and in my country our laws protect us from this shit, dont need to opt out, they cant collect shit without making it clear and asking me beforehand.


Would you mind telling me the name of your country .I'd really like to know where and how they have protected you from nsa backdoors inside windows in the past 20 years and what they will exactly do if they realise that they have collected data?Will there be a 300.000 dollar fine which will make ms laugh


I was going to ask the same thing. What are those wonderful things called "laws" that magically prevent the NSA from collecting data from people from all over the world?



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

NiKKoM on 08 October 2013

Why is it showing Viagra ads... :(



 

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Damnyouall on 08 October 2013
NiKKoM said:
Why is it showing Viagra ads... :(

Maybe Kinect is having trouble detecting your xboner?



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

crissindahouse on 08 October 2013

yes kinect collects some data if you want to use it  and even if you opt out of the advertisement program. that's what it has to do to even work or do people think it can recognize if you or your wife stand in front of it without it ever learning who is who?

if you say "xbox on" and it will recognize who you are it can obviously only do this if it already collected some data of your voice.

but hey, if you absolutely don't want to use kinect because it will collect data for stuff like voice an face recognization just never use kinect. the kinect for the 360 also collected your data to recognize who you are if you start the console. didn't know that this is such a big thing...