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If this isn't a reason to switch to Linux, I don't know what is! I should have posted this sooner, just in case if it helps. This should piss you off as much as it does me. More shady ass ways data is being sent back to Microsoft. You have to switch off all kinds of shit! I assume you might know this already. But, just in case you are still on Windows and don't know. Next, you also can go to the recovery tab and select take no action, just in case Windows tries to re enable it after a Windows update. Also, turn off the telemetry setting in settings shown in photos. There might be more that I don't even know about.

It also stores your search history!

Who knows what required data they are sending!

More garbage.

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[โ€“] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

does 11 even has that feature by default?

[โ€“] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

That is the real problem with Windows, less the privacy (MS isn't an advertising company like Google, they make money with their products, forced to use these, instead of user choice alternatives. and userdata to train their AIs, sharing bandwidth of the users for own use, this is the main issue of M$). Windows has all the M$ crap, AIs, EDGE, Bing, ads, OneDrive, Recall, etc. as default. You can desactivate all of these, but as I said before, it need advanced work diving through a ton of indocumented menus, submenus and registry entries (territory Comanche !!!). Luckily there are a lot of tutorials on the web which can help to eliminate all this crap.