The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.

And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won’t change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn’t fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like “Let’s get everything set up for you”, and “Let Cortana help you get things done!”.

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

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if you care about privacy linux is the best honestly

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Maybe also not Ubuntu or RHEL? I heard they also collect telemetries and hard to trun off. Unsure.

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i actually uninstalled the telemetry package and it stopped even being able to enable telemetry

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The telemetry is opt in so feel free to use them. (Correct me if i am wrong)

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This is most people’s reaction to using Windows for any reason.

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Chris Titus debloat script is the only thing that makes Windows even remotely usable these days.

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Thata true, but you if used in a vm you should be careful as preset selections could end up removing functions on your guest vm.

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