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Comment by saagarjha | Hacker News Reader

If I’m understanding this right, Intel looks at your web browsing to optimize their drivers? Why would you ever willfully share this information with Intel?

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Well, they state it in the link:

> Intel uses information about your computer's performance to make product improvements that may benefit you in the future.

I'm sure you'll feel better knowing this. /s

i.e. even if they're being completely honest, it doesn't benefit you unless you go back and buy another Intel CPU five years down the line.

Sounds a lot like "register for a chance to win..."

Because I'm always going to buy Intel products?

Probably they want to group their buyers using that browsing information. E.g HN readers tend to have i7 CPUs etc.

While they state only "The categories of websites you visit, but not the URL itself" is transferred. I'm wondering how you do this? The most privacy friendly method would be to have an offline mapping with e.g. the 10000 most visited sites and their categories.

They could remove the "website categories" bit and it wouldn't sound as sketchy to be honest. At least it's voluntary.

It's not truly voluntary unless it's opt-in.

As I understand it, the CIP is opt-in, so it is truly voluntary.

EDIT: Well, it's supposed to be opt-in, but apparently Intel has been sneaking it on user computers without their approval, which suggests that the checkbox used to install it from the driver assistant might be checked by default... so not opt-in.

didn't you know there's a new X-Website-Category header in http/3?

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