> If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions... I'm not sure what this even

> If your threat model is that the OS provider is hostile, no amount of changing of settings will protect you from their actions... I'm not sure what this even means in this context. It's not about protecting against a threat model that may someday manifest, it's actual, specific actions that are known to be occurring currently and that can't be opted out of (let alone opted in to) that are being objected to. And certainly nothing to do with "cloud based features" of Windows 10.