<story><title>Intel&apos;s GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including &apos;How You Use Your Computer&apos;</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&amp;gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand the need to include &amp;quot;the types of websites you visit&amp;quot; in GPU driver telemetry.&lt;p&gt;Do you visit Youtube and Twitch other streaming services often? Focus on video decoding.&lt;p&gt;Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration.&lt;p&gt;There are reasons this data can be useful, especially since Intel wants to unfuck their otherwise imperially fucked drivers. Websites aren&amp;#x27;t just plain text with window dressing anymore, they are entire programs unto themselves.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37026592&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37026592&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>pptr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the need to include &amp;quot;the types of websites you visit&amp;quot; in GPU driver telemetry.&lt;p&gt;AMD&amp;#x27;s telemetry doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to include that:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;user-experience-program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;user-experience-program...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I couldn&amp;#x27;t figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>HeckFeck</author><text>Do they need telemetry to know this? I could ask around, but I don&amp;#x27;t think &lt;i&gt;anyone&lt;/i&gt; exists who doesn&amp;#x27;t game and also watch video on the same system.&lt;p&gt;Should Creative also track my listening habits, to determine whether soundcard development resources need pooled into system sounds or MP3 decoding? Wouldn&amp;#x27;t that be a tad silly of them?&lt;p&gt;It seems a bit post-facto to me.</text></comment>
<story><title>Intel&apos;s GPU Drivers Now Collect Telemetry, Including &apos;How You Use Your Computer&apos;</title><url>https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/intels-gpu-drivers-now-collect-telemetry-including-how-you-use-your-computer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Dalewyn</author><text>&amp;gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand the need to include &amp;quot;the types of websites you visit&amp;quot; in GPU driver telemetry.&lt;p&gt;Do you visit Youtube and Twitch other streaming services often? Focus on video decoding.&lt;p&gt;Do you visit sites that heavily utilize graphics[1]? Focus on 3D acceleration.&lt;p&gt;There are reasons this data can be useful, especially since Intel wants to unfuck their otherwise imperially fucked drivers. Websites aren&amp;#x27;t just plain text with window dressing anymore, they are entire programs unto themselves.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37026592&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=37026592&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>pptr</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand the need to include &amp;quot;the types of websites you visit&amp;quot; in GPU driver telemetry.&lt;p&gt;AMD&amp;#x27;s telemetry doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to include that:
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;user-experience-program.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amd.com&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;legal&amp;#x2F;privacy&amp;#x2F;user-experience-program...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I couldn&amp;#x27;t figure out what telemetry is collected by Nvidia.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>api</author><text>You could gather that information by just reporting anonymous internal telemetry about what kind of computational work the GPU is doing.</text></comment>