<i>The Windows 10 privacy thing is completely overblown.</i><p>Not when you consider the fact that they&#x27;re being so damned sneaky about it.<p>First, the idea that you have to run an enterprise OS to turn off (not &quot;set to basic&quot;, but turn OFF) the tracking says volumes. Just by having it default would meet the goals of collecting development&#x2F;troubleshooting&#x2F;debugging info since most people won&#x27;t change the defaults.<p>Next up, there&#x27;s the fact that Microsoft has gone out of their way to make it hard to turn off anyways by hard coding addresses and ignoring registry keys. The only way for a home user to stop all tracking is to firewall an ever changing list of IPs.<p>Third, <i>you do not know</i> what they are tracking or not tracking. The communications are secure and the application closed source.<p>It&#x27;s more the attitude these actions belie than the actions themselves, IMO. It&#x27;s a very quiet, but distinct disdain for the user. &quot;Yes, you paid $100 for our OS, but you didn&#x27;t think you actually controlled it, did you?&quot;<p>So... minus four in a short amount of time. Would anyone care to explain how I&#x27;m incorrect about any of this?