This complaint is so frustrating since odds are many people are reading this from Apple laptops running OSX that does at least as much telemetry. Run Little Snitch and launch apps, type in spotlight, visit a store... hell you'll get regular uptime telemetry dumps even if you don't do anything.

And odds are there is an iPhone or Android phone in your pocket, its software metaphorically top heavy with instrumentation to track your ever engagement pattern with laser-like precision.

But Microsoft takes the brunt of this complaint because they're open, honest, and give you a scale of opt-outs. But mysteriously no one blames Ubuntu for doing the exact same things because... freedom?

Meanwhile, Microsoft has opened their entire core technology stack to outside scrutiny, adopted a radically user-centric approach to OS design, and taken a very risky and user-and-dev-friendly strategy regarding how apps are shipped and created.

I find this ceaseless double standard less than sweet, and indeed very much about bitterness.