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I agree. It's not a great situation.

Honestly the telemetry is arguably better from a security perspective. We already trust Microsoft out of necessity, so what additional harm does the telemetry?



I don’t understand. Microsoft’s telemetry is very invasive from a privacy standpoint. How does it improve security?


I was trying to say that installing a closed-source program with admin privileges is technically a bigger security risk than allowing Microsoft's telemetry, and it's arguably a bigger privacy risk as well.




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