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CCleaner isn't bundle with Windows so you could choose to not install it. It's not really needed anyway.

But you cannot really opt out from Windows telemetry.

You still have more configuration knobs than on Google's OSes.

What does Android/ChromeOS have to do with this? Mac OS X is the most comparable and it lets you disable reporting on first setup (not buried deep within one of two different control panels).

And if you really wanted to compare it to Android/ChromeOS, consider that Windows is still $120-200 for a license and still silently tracks out of the box. That just doesn't seem right. How much more do I need to pay to turn off being tracked?

The Windows licenses only matter when buying a Windows DVD without computer, they barely reflect on the whole computer price.

In fact in some stores that sell computers with FreeDos or Linux, the models tend to be more expensive than those with Windows.

ChromeOS by being a browser based OS, means all applications run in someone else's computer, no way to turn tracking off other than not using ChromeOS at all.

Likewise, what each Android model allows to turn off and what gets tracked depends pretty much on how each OEM has customized their Android version.

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