For what it's worth, some of the spying can be disabled with O&O's ShutUp10 [1] One needs to run it after each windows update and it will show you what if anyt

For what it's worth, some of the spying can be disabled with O&O's ShutUp10 [1] One needs to run it after each windows update and it will show you what if anything under its purview has changed. Disabling some telemetry can make the desktop a little snappier as it is not phoning home every time an application is launched. There are also a bunch of PowerShell scripts on github that do the same things but some of them change risky options that can break things so I will not link to those. [1] - https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10