The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.

And this is treated as a bad thing?!

The number of ads you see won’t change, but they may be less relevant to you.

Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.

In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.

The rest of the installation process wasn’t fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like “Let’s get everything set up for you”, and “Let Cortana help you get things done!”.

Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.

    • MagneticFusion@lemm.ee
      27·
      6 months ago

      If he is using Windows in a VM, he probably already runs Linux as his base OS and is using the VM for a windows only app

    • umami_wasabi@lemmy.ml
      102·
      6 months ago

      Maybe also not Ubuntu or RHEL? I heard they also collect telemetries and hard to trun off. Unsure.

      • ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world
        45·
        6 months ago

        Ubuntu will ask you if usage data can be collected and sent to canonical when you first log in after installation. You get to look at the exact data that would be sent before making a decision and if you say no, then they’ll comply with that and never ask you again.

      • umbrella@lemmy.ml
        8·
        6 months ago

        i actually uninstalled the telemetry package and it stopped even being able to enable telemetry