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Fuck that. Microsoft is worse then Google when it comes to privacy. At least when you opt out to Google's tracking, it doesn't magically opt back in after an update. Microsoft is a toxic company that simply has a good PR team on social media. I wish we had the Ubuntu phone instead.

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I get that people may not like the tone here...but the central point is true. Microsoft is even more aggressive about this stuff than Google now. Having to opt-out per major update is just insane, almost nobody will remember to do it making the opt-out virtually meaningless.

Except that due to GDPR (at least in Europe) automatically opting someone in now is against the law and will result in hefty fines.

So for Europe, each major update should either remember your preferences or have them opted out by default.

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