[MaulingMonkey]

> Canonical did not hide what they were doing,

Did Microsoft? This is news to me if so, and I'd be interested in reading up on any sources for this you might have.

> and enabled an option to disable it in the first place.

Microsoft added several options to disable things. While I certainly agree that those options have some gaps and/or are outright bugged, I'm not convinced there's any difference in intent or motivation, which is the bigger factor to me when it comes to trust of character.