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The clean install seems fine to me, as long as you turn off all the data collection toggles during setup. It seems like the bigger issue are the manufacturers shipping with all sorts of junk on it. It surprises me that Norton and McAfee are still shipping pre-installed.

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Many intrusive features are enabled by default, and casual users may not be aware of how to disable them, leading to widespread acceptance by default.

Such as?

More specifically, what intrusive features are enabled that aren't shown as an option to deselect on a clean install?

You don't have a Candy Crush or Office 365 shortcuts out of the box?

edit: I mean they had to remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to save space...

Mine's "pro", so that might be why I don't have games. I would assume it has Office 365 installed (I haven't checked), just as it has OneDrive, Cortana, Defender, etc.

> edit: I mean they had to remove Solitaire and Minesweeper to save space...

Don't worry, you can still install Minesweeper from the official store ... with ads and play-to-win microtransactions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40647278

Yeah, saw that... my comment was mostly in snark as the games in question were much smaller than even the Office setup files.

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