Friend, could you please put a real name to these rebuttals? It's bad for HackerNews karma, but that's a fool's economy anyways. I'm rather tired of being one o

Friend, could you please put a real name to these rebuttals? It's bad for HackerNews karma, but that's a fool's economy anyways. I'm rather tired of being one of the handful of public faces of this conversation in every thread. These comparisons are directly and deliberately incendiary. They're clickbait of the worst order, for several reasons. But the ugliest part is that even with you pointing out in the Win10 SP1 you can easily stop these requests from going out on your search requests (and validate that they do!), they've tactically damaged consumer confidence and implied that Windows 10 is spyware when in reality it's one of the more secure and maintained desktop OSs you can elect to run right now, and certainly a much better option than the flagging and reluctant support MS has to deliver for Win7. People love to levy these accusations at Google as well, so perhaps a better comparison for Mac users: Start typing into Spotlight and see what happens on your network interface. It's easier to turn off now, but was not so for quite some time. Spotlight was collecting-every-keystroke-omg-spyware for a long time and there was no public outcry.