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Re:Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I do... on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:54AM (#23392396)

Could you stop the MSFT advertisements?

- All of these are possible without telemetry.

- There is a deceptive button on install that does not work.

- Make it opt-in for submissive persons who want to please MSFT.

Re:Seven years later, I bought a new MacBook. For the first time, I do... on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @11:51AM (#23392375)

It is not at all simple to "opt-out" (i.e. remove malicious software).

I checked the box "no telemetry" on install, yet I still had to disable dozes of spyware "options" manually later. One of them was a keylogger! Microsoft is in the black hat business.

> telemetry can benefit product teams

Pure marketing. If product teams what to know about issues, how about setting up decent bug-trackers like everyone else?

Reporting issues is a convoluted, humiliating and mostly futile process.