> Spyware. Security. ...

I hope you don't use web apps, ChromeOS or Android then.

For web, I always have Privacy Badger + Ublock + ScriptSafe (which I selectively disable). For Android, Instead of StockRoms + GooglePlay I use Lineage + F-Droid (only open source apps). And on my ChromeOS labtop, I installed Parabola Linux (free-software-only version of Arch Linux).

How is that philosophically different than using Windows with Spybot Anti-beacon (or similar telemetry-blocker)?

You're critical of Windows for collecting data, but use other software that collects similar data, saying "that's fine I have 3rd-party privacy tools". These same tools have existed for Win10 since week 1.

> How is that philosophically different than using Windows

He has entirely FOSS stacks for his devices? Quite literally no proprietary code wherever possible?

They're not "3rd-party privacy tools" he's making a point of, outside of a browser which isn't what the complaint is about on Windows, since that is outside the bounds of OS-specific complaints, but he mentioned it nonetheless since you asked about it.

Regarding web, that is only partial security, as you cannot avoid everything that gets stored on the application servers.

I don't like the way Microsoft has lately begun treating both their devs and customers, but nevertheless they are a corporation - they have to someway make a profit - a business survives by adapting to their users and telemetry ("spyware") is data; data on which they (should) adapt to their user needs.

The fact that you can spell out the motivation of someone's shitty behavior doesn't elevate it above criticism!