Comment on We might see Microsoft adding ads to BSOD
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 months agoToo bad bluescreened computers likely won’t report back viewership stats
dear user.
thank you for your report.
please be assured that even in the event of a bsod, windows will still report metrics back to microsoft so long as the system drive is operational for use as temporary storage of that data until the next successful windows boot.
new OOB ad metrics reporting will also be added to intel ime and amd psp in future processors in order to further address your concern.
-microsoft support
I know that the hard drive remains in use but this relies on a subsequent successful Windows boot (good luck). In case of bootlooping kiosks, the company’s IT crew will probably just pull useful data off the drive and revert it to the known good installation.
If the BSOD happens on a running PC, networking will probably continue working. With a bootloop, it depends on whether the network stack initialization has progressed far enough before the crash.
I dunno. Kernels can dump the memory pages and whatnot, surely they could throw in which ad got served at the time too. I’m sure someone up at Microsoft is smart enough to figure it out.
I would imagine it stats could be somehow stored and sent off once the problem is resolved
RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Microsoft would do anything to keep the statcounting service running more stable than the kernel itself
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 4 months ago
Ring -1 proprietary telemetry! Yay!
*Microsoft pushes UEFI-level telemetry as part of the Secure Boot requirements for Windows 12*