Telemetric envy.

[whoololon]

This is a news item dedicated to all those "fanboys/girls" of AMD, and also to those who are particularly concerned about privacy:
nVidia incorporates a telemetry feature in its latest drivers.
It seems that it "simply" sticks to events related to the driver itself, but it is noteworthy that this feature 1- is not indicated in the installer (EULA) and 2- is not offered as an option, as is usually the case.

Let's be reasonable, at this point in time we are not going to be scandalized, what does "bother" (if it is annoying) is that if information is money, we don't see a dime.

I don't care if it's Microsoft, Google, nVidia or the mother who gave birth to them who considers us interesting enough to keep a record of what we do or don't do; but if they are going to make a profit, they should share with us too.

And I'll stop here, I'm getting heated.

[cobito]

This surely equals the vast majority of gamers. It is already known that, for example, the same games call home to send also "usage statistics".

Taking a bit of the pro-FOSS vein: "this does not happen with Linux". But of course, for this not to happen in Linux you only have two options: either use an old Nvidia graphics card or be left without most advanced functionalities.

Although in that article they explain how to disable it, this is only the first step; it may be just a feeler to go further depending on people's reaction. This time Nvidia has left enough breadcrumbs to discover the matter. But if they really wanted to carry out this type of practices in a completely transparent way towards the user, they could.

AMD has bet heavily on free drivers in Linux and even the alternative free implementations for the 3D stack are giving hopeful results (thanks in large part to the documentation provided by the company). Nvidia, on the other hand, is stingy even with signed firmware without which one can even do reverse engineering.

In this aspect, AMD only gains points and Nvidia only loses them. Leaving aside technical issues, AMD gives Nvidia a thousand turns.

We will see how the average consumer reacts to this. I bet they simply won't react.

[whoololon]

@cobito It's funny that you comment on Linux, because lately I have the impression that it points to as the ideal platform for games. And if Vulkan finally manages to fully integrate into the landscape...
Anyway, I get excited and divert the topic.

Bad nVidia, bad-bad. :point_left_tone2:

[Fassou]

@whoololon said in Telemetric Envy.:

@cobito Well, it's funny that you comment on that about Linux, because lately I get the impression that it's pointing out as the ideal platform for games. And if Vulkan finally manages to fully integrate into the landscape...
Anyway, I get excited and divert the topic.

Bad nVidia, ma-la. :point_left_tone2:

While another mad genius doesn't come out and build a powerful graphics engine, far from the bourgeois Direct3D, and that of course at least initially gets a fight from the console market (where there's more money) or mobile phones, things look bad.

Give me a young John Carmack and... no, don't take away the bad mood because it can be useful

[cobito]

Since Valve entered Linux, things have changed quite a bit. Not only do we have Source ported to Linux, but triple A engines like Unreal Engine that are open source (although not free software) are also available for Linux.

[Nemo]

The bad thing about this new "weather balloon" for data collection by Nvidia, which includes all kinds of personal information including email addresses (Nvidia, do you really need my email to know if the driver has failed?) and which we are unfortunately getting used to because the main services (from operating systems, browsers, etc.) do them, is that all that information traveled unencrypted.
So happily, that any hacker could have intercepted that information and made a fortune at the expense of the Big Brother games of the unconscious of Nvidia.