NOTE: Due to Nintendo being very cheeky, these settings are only applicable in EU/EEA Member countries. NA/JP/AU users will need to change their Nintendo Account region to apply these settings.
This is a somewhat obscure setting in the Nintendo Account website, and its main purpose seems to be akin to usage information sharing in SpotPass back on the 3DS.
As it'd seem, the Share Error Information setting in the Switch's Settings menu only relates to sharing error information with third parties, AKA it's not much of any use as far as hiding from Nintendo goes.
As stated in their Privacy Policy:
The page in question can be found under Other Settings -> Usage information, or here: https://accounts.nintendo.com/analytics/opt_in
In classic Nintendo fashion, both the product and service improvement and ad personalization are checked by default. Just uncheck both of those and click Save changes.
(The GDPR explicitly states that all non-critical operational telemetry must be opt-in rather than opt-out, someone could get smacked in the face for this...)
Whether or not this actually has an impact on the amount of telemetry sent from the console to Nintendo, or simply reduces which purposes it's processed for, is anybody's guess. I couldn't find any information on it whatsoever; only a thorough packet capture and comparison with other packet captures can say for sure. I'd imagine this is good to know even just for the privacy-conscious, nonetheless.
This is a somewhat obscure setting in the Nintendo Account website, and its main purpose seems to be akin to usage information sharing in SpotPass back on the 3DS.
As it'd seem, the Share Error Information setting in the Switch's Settings menu only relates to sharing error information with third parties, AKA it's not much of any use as far as hiding from Nintendo goes.
As stated in their Privacy Policy:
The page in question can be found under Other Settings -> Usage information, or here: https://accounts.nintendo.com/analytics/opt_in
In classic Nintendo fashion, both the product and service improvement and ad personalization are checked by default. Just uncheck both of those and click Save changes.
(The GDPR explicitly states that all non-critical operational telemetry must be opt-in rather than opt-out, someone could get smacked in the face for this...)
Whether or not this actually has an impact on the amount of telemetry sent from the console to Nintendo, or simply reduces which purposes it's processed for, is anybody's guess. I couldn't find any information on it whatsoever; only a thorough packet capture and comparison with other packet captures can say for sure. I'd imagine this is good to know even just for the privacy-conscious, nonetheless.
Last edited by Sgt. Lulz,
, Reason: Let's not get ahead of ourselves, here
