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Windows itself is not a bastion of privacy.

I see your point, but I'll add that telemetry is focused on making sure stuff works, whereas selling ads based on your data is focused on making money from you.

Telemetry can be disabled on Enterprise: https://www.kapilarya.com/allow-or-prevent-telemetry-in-wind... but I agree it would be good for Microsoft to allow this to be disabled in Pro.

Motivation is irrelevant if I don't want to share any data as a user.

edit: Besides that, the telemetry service has caused multiple problems on different systems already. I just don't see any results from it compared to previous versions of windows.

Last I checked windows now has ads in it. Those ads may currently be totally untargeted, but that's a small comfort and I wouldn't count on it staying that way forever.

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