Why can't they just make it opt-in? When one of my kids ask for something and I say no, they might ask again. But the more they continue to ask, the more deter

Why can't they just make it opt-in? When one of my kids ask for something and I say no, they might ask again. But the more they continue to ask, the more determined I am to say no. The difference between me and Microsoft (in this context), is I'm trying to bring up respectful children. This is just what Microsoft are doing - judging by the +1's, there's a huge majority of users who just don't want this. Instead of giving their customers what they're asking for, they just dig their heels in further. This is one of the main reasons I started the transition away from Windows since the 8 preview. They said that making it opt-in would mean less data. Well, doesn't that tell them something? I'm sure the .NET team would have got the same answers if this where opt-in - and let's face it, the discoveries aren't exactly ground breaking. If you ask me, I probably would have opted in. I'm sure other people would do the same (if they could). But it's not, so I jumped through the hoops to disable it (added it to /etc/environment). You don't ask, you don't get. And another thing, why not disable it using the registry when running on Windows? Personal experience tells me that only a minority of Windows devs even know what an environment variable is, let alone know how to set to globally and persistent. It's arguable whether or not this is personally identifiable. Even if it's not, it still leaves a bad taste as it's still classed as "spying" - they're sneaking the data out by making people take effort to disable it; it's beyond a simple Y/N, people have to actually learn how to do something. And it's also giving people the impression that their own apps will be contaminated. It's a command-line tool I'm running on my local computer for professional use, not a click-bait website or social media platform.