That is your data they are taking to make money off of without your consent

I mean... They're a for-profit company, so literally anything they do is to make money.

But it's not "my data", it's anonymous. The "engagement" info is in relation to features. That's why some features are removed - because nobody uses them. Or rather: not enough people use them to warrant maintenance.

And how do you know it’s not malicious in nature?

Because I have a functioning brain.

I’d like to know what your definition of “malicious” is

Malware is designed to hurt you by extracting your personal information or resources.

Telemetry is designed to give developers feedback about product/functionality usage and is anonymous.

you’re just fine with letting a Corpo run system look at everything you’re doing.

I'm not, and it's not. Unlike you, I actually checked what data telemetry gathers and I'm perfectly fine with it. It's inconsequential and anonymous.

Are you a tech-illiterate person?

If not, explain how is it malicious.

Right. So you're all panicking just in case.

That's what's being swept under the rug as "alarmists being loud".

If it does that, outrage will be understandable.

Getting outraged about something they said will be 100% optional and hasn't even released yet is just childish.

So you're saying you haven't bothered to read about Recall at all, you just assumed it's going to be enabled by default?

Windows, an OS that is spyware and no one should use

Of, ffs, grow up.

An example of Windows being spyware not standard telemetry is the Recall feature. A feature that doesn’t just tell you how the OS is used but actually takes screenshots every few seconds

You have no clue what you're talking about, do you?

Recall only works on devices with an NPU. Do you know why? Because it runs locally. It's got NOTHING to do with telemetry, because it does NOT send data to Microsoft.

However regarding Windows telemetry it’s indistinguishable from spyware - you have no idea nor control over the data gathered, measured and processed

Ah, so you're another one of those fear-mongers?

Here's the Required Diagnostic Events Fields (required telemetry) documentation.

Keeping in mind that it's anonymous - which parts of this are you so vehemently against sending to Microsoft?

That makes Windows telemetry fulfill all spyware criteria.

The shittiest spyware in history, I guess, considering it's all anonymous...