deepbreath

In UK, they all ship with Windows it looks like. The only laptops I found that don't shove the cost of a license down your throat are the build-your-own ones, like pcspecialist.co.uk / novatech.co.uk / scan.co.uk / ebuyer.com etc. But you're not gonna get thin portable laptops by building your own.

It's perplexing how we've let it come to a state where you can't buy a laptop device without Microsoft taking a cut for the license.

And I'm still not over the way we let them have their OS logo on all keyboards, either.

Those are not Lenovo-specific backdoors, though

It is, but your own client obviously has access to the conversation (how else would it display it on your screen?). So learning your interests can be done on the client-side, rather than server-side. Then your list of interests is reported to the server.

The WhatsApp client could still learn your interests from your conversations and request ads related to them from the server.

> How does investing in Facebook stock help Facebook?

Buying stock increases demand, thus increasing the price of a stock unit. That, in turn, benefits those who own it (which I'm guessing is primarily the CEO and the shareholders)