They couldn't help themselves, they just had to abuse the trust and now I am back to the point were Microsoft has to earn any trust that I am not forced to give them.
Take note whoever thought it was a good idea to squeeze a few cents extra out of us by plastering cheap candy crush ads everywhere in my licensed professional software, change pricing willy nilly and be generally unreliable with stuff like the post above: it does backfire.
Other engineers and "evangelists" and what not worked hard for years to create trust and become a preferred choice. I was swayed. I preferred Microsoft to Google for a few months. You tore it down in hours and now I despise both.
(Yes, there are usable parts of both. But no long time trust. Always check my back. It works but it is so icky to be in a relationship with someone who so cleary doesn't care.)
Also they have reasons ($$$) besides tracking and advertising to keep me in their ecosystem.
It won't surprise me much if they start double dipping though, so I keep an eye on fairphones etc.
Additionally, both of the previous two comments are based on false equivalence[2]. The two technologies discussed (online certificate checking, and file hash detection) are not the same, nor do they affect the user's privacy in remotely the same way.
I would argue this thread has devolved into misinformation stemming from uneducated claims.
1. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/12/15/apple-nixes-csam-refere...
Think of the children!™
I wonder how easy to manipulate threads here? Cause it seems it wouldn't take much that effort.