Alaknar

What are you talking about now?

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.

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...

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.

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?

I don't know, maybe because I understand the definition of "spyware" and "telemetry"?

Honestly it largely is.

I mean, by definition, it isn't.

It's anonymous and not malicious in nature. It's a diagnostic and engagement measuring tool.