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Re:Microsoft Advertisement Inc. by dchest on Saturday November 16, 2019 @04:10AM (#21551727)
Apple is not as invasive as Microsoft, but macOS has this preference: https://imgur.com/a/VhQec0O

"Advertising in Apple Apps: View the information used by Apple to deliver more relevant ads to you in Apple News, Stocks and the iOS App Store. Your personal data is not provided to third parties."

Apparently, you will see ads in their newest apps: News and Stocks apps (and ads for other apps in App Store).

Re:Microsoft Advertisement Inc. by simonh on Saturday November 16, 2019 @06:10AM (#21552060)
If you have oped out, as in your case and mine, the answer is none of your information will be used in this way. It's one setting, it's a complete opt out and you get prominently asked at install time. I've really not got any problem with that.
Re:Microsoft Advertisement Inc. by dchest on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:18AM (#21552288)
I don't want any advertising in the software I buy.
Re:Microsoft Advertisement Inc. by Nextgrid on Saturday November 16, 2019 @07:16AM (#21552283)
> you get prominently asked at install time

Do you? I know the iOS setup wizard asks for analytics, but I don't recall it ever asking whether you want to turn on "limit ad tracking".

Re:Microsoft Advertisement Inc. by simonh on Saturday November 16, 2019 @08:29AM (#21552521)
I was pretty sure it did, but if not that's even better. I didn't set this manually and it's off, so presumably that's just the default setting.