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by mtgx 3604 days ago
Yeah, it's called dark patterns, and Microsoft makes full use of them in Windows 10. And it seems to only get worse with the recent changes they've made in the Anniversary Update, like how they hide how you could disable Cortana in searches (they turned it into a very technical option, that no "normal" person would figure out), and so on.

I for one am glad that the French Data Protection Authority is going after Microsoft, but it remains to be seen if it can lead to major changes in Windows 10 (for the benefit of the users):

https://www.cnil.fr/en/windows-10-cnil-publicly-serves-forma...