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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.