> That's just what it means to use windows. Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in

> That's just what it means to use windows. Windows is currently the most egregious of them, but that's what it means to use a proprietary operating system in general. > The best thing you can do is avoid using windows wherever and whenever you can. Take it a step further. The best thing you can do is to avoid using software that you don't control, or software that you can' audit the source code yourself and audit exactly what its doing. When you're vendor locked in to a proprietary OS, there's nothing stopping the software from turning on you at any given moment. Apple could decide tomorrow they want to start scooping up data like Microsoft, or Google does and there's nothing we can do about it except for not use their stuff.