So depending on the categories it would potentially not be sensationalist to say “Intel GPU drivers are recording how much you watch porn”. And this potentially covers a lot of people if integrated video is covered by the same drivers. I suspect I won’t be the only person to adopt a principled position and avoid Intel devices from now on after a lifetime of choosing only Intel.

How are we 2023 and there still not legal protections against this sort of thing. It’s basically the tech version of peeping tom.

My understanding is that Nvidia GPUs require GeForce Experience to enable all of the advertised features, which also includes telemetry that tracks your windows and URLs.

Only one good player remains.

I wonder what are those categories and if Intel knows something we don't know.

For instance, this information will be useful for the coming implementation of CBDC in various countries and form a basis of social credit score.

Intel will probably make a ton of money by selling this information to governments.

IMO the "score" obtained this way would be completely useless as the "sites visited" don't correspond to the money one actually spends online.

Somebody interested in money transactions can get much more information by actually observing money transactions.

Nvidia would likely have much better data to sell as they have collected data for years.

Do you know, do all their drivers do this or only some? And how can this be seen?

GeForce Experience has telemetry, but I can't tell you if the driver packages from Nvidia has any. There's a Disable-Nvidia-Telemetry tool, but I can't say I know anything about it (I use AMD).

https://github.com/NateShoffner/Disable-Nvidia-Telemetry/rel...

I surely wouldn't call Intel a "GPU driver company" (like how I'd call American Megatrends a BIOS/Firmware company), but rather a Processor company that is also making drivers (but that is neither here nor there).

This is still so weird of them (not weird in the sense I wouldn't put it past them, but weird in a sense that someone even had the idea), even if they make it optional. Like, I don't care if you want to use that information to try to make better drivers by knowing which sites break the GPU, I will report that to you if I feel so inclined to it.

I'd understand if it were "We wanna know what programs are using hardware acceleration", but it's not limited to that...

I never had a goal to reduce Intel to a single role in today's world. Instead:

For a company Y, where Y produces GPU driver, I can't believe there's a plausible explanation for Y to globally collect information about the web sites visited by all users in order to improve the GPU driver code.

The reason behind must be something else.