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About LinkBacksOk. Here's something even funnier. The article here is pointing out the lack of privacy and yet the inline advertisement/link when you mouse over the text is a link to an advertisment from Microsoft about security:
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Ok. Here's something even funnier. The article here is pointing out the lack of privacy and yet the inline advertisement/link when you mouse over the text is a link to an advertisment from Microsoft about security:
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I have to admit, I read Hexus quite often, it's a great site with loads of great and usually unbiassed articles.
But this article was poor. It had no merit to it at all, and to me just seemed like another pop at Microsoft.
Sure, Microsoft aren't perfect, and neither is the X360. But like somebody else said, this article is blown way out of proportion.
Yes, the X360 does show everybody what you're doing, but NOT in any major detail.
However, if you don't want your info to be shown, it CAN be disabled, how that was missed out of the article god only knows.
Moreso, if privacy is a really really key issue for certain users, disconnecting from Live can be done very very easily by the brilliant dashboard system.
Hexus, you're a great site, how about a GOOD X360 article highlighting what a brilliant machine it really is.
This article was full of paranoid anti-Microsoft trash and it bothers me to know that at least some will read it and not realize how truly ill-informed the author was when he wrote it.
The settings ARE there to stop people from seeing this information. It took a few seconds of my searching to find them. Not that the author actually mentioned them in his article - clearly showing a complete lack of research on his part. Nor do I think he is likely to post a correction (even if I think it's a good idea), because it takes most of the "bite" of his article away. This smacks of just trying to stir up controversy to make a name for one's own site, no matter how unfounded the controversy actually is.
Please do post a correction, though, and invalidate most of your article. The community *would* appreciate a bit more of the truth.
I quite like that feature tbh... every person for themself, but it's like an informative xfire, which is something I would really like for consoles. Something that counts hours of games played, friends able to join games, etc etc.
BTW there is an update in the article, so no need to register simply to hurl abuse at him for making a free review that may have missed some important info.
The point ofthe article is to highlight just how much info Xbox LIVE shares with other and that you have to OPT OUT of this rather than OPT IN.
The privacy settings aren't the easiest of things to find, though certainly there are there. That there's no online information to tell you that your info is being dispkayed OR how to turn this off is most likely an oversight by Microsoft, but we are highlighting what we bel;ieve to be a problem.
The article HAS been updated and I'm now recieving dozewns of mails from people thanking me for highlighting this issue as they were totally unaware of it, so it IS valid and has served a valuable service to many.
Originally Posted by Dareos
The point ofthe article is to highlight just how much info Xbox LIVE shares with other and that you have to OPT OUT of this rather than OPT IN.
The privacy settings aren't the easiest of things to find, though certainly there are there. That there's no online information to tell you that your info is being dispkayed OR how to turn this off is most likely an oversight by Microsoft, but we are highlighting what we bel;ieve to be a problem.
The article HAS been updated and I'm now recieving dozewns of mails from people thanking me for highlighting this issue as they were totally unaware of it, so it IS valid and has served a valuable service to many.
Glad to have helped
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The privacy settings are very easy to find.
It's painfully obvious that you had no idea that this option you think is so severe is easily disabled with a few button presses prior to your writing; if you did know, why would you skip over somthing so important? Because it effectively destroys your entire aurgument, that's why... rendering your article useless. You never even mentioned that "it sould be opt in, not opt out" at all in your original argument, so your defense on reasoning for writing the article is officially out the window.
And comon man, if your worried about somthing so little as somone knowing what video game your playing, then you must not have much else to worry about.
You have to be pretty paraniod to truly feel worried about people seeing the name of the game your playing... especially when you can turn it off.
This shows how you are completely ignorant of how almost every social network works. First you OPTED IN when you signed up for XBLIVE. If you don't want people to know what you are doing on your xbox, don't sign up for a service that is dedicated to matching people up together with similar interests/status.
Second, almost every network includes the ability to see the status of other users on the service turned on by default. Installing AIM on your computer? Guess what? By default any user of the service can see your status. Your own forums require me to OPT OUT of the 'Currently Active Users' lists. Why do you use software that doesn't protect my privacy? By your reasoning, I should have to OPT IN for this feature. But then again, it probably wouldn't be as attention grabbing if I wrote an article about how the Hexus.net forums violate my privacy.
Just because dozens of other people are ignorant of how the service works, does not justify you being sensationalistic about the matter with titles like: "Xbox 360 LIVE… Privacy? What privacy?"
If all you really cared about was informing other users about how social networks work online, you would have informed them that what the xbox is doing is TYPICAL of any social networking service available. You lost all credibility to that claim with your irresponsible journalism.
Privacy settings aside, you can sign out of xbox live at any time you like...
Then browse your photos, play your music, whatever you like...
I'm only signed in when played games or I chatting to a friend.
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