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Are proprietary drivers on Linux a possible privacy breach? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by obbeel@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I want to know how much privacy I'm losing by using proprietary drivers on Debian for gaming. Can anyone help? I would very much like to know that.

Can proprietary drivers fetch my activity on other apps I'm running on my PC, or on the Internet? And so on. Thank you.

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[–] isleofmist@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Of course they are. But that's the only way some hardware works. I try to avoid them as much as humanly possible. This is why I'll never ever buy Nvidia hardware.