[nolok]

> The author must not be used to the new spyware-by-default mentality coming from Microsoft. Hard to believe, but they used to sell products a while ago and had no telemetry.

Yeah well you and the author's first clue should have been when you stopped paying for said products.

And in this specific case, it's really not spying, it reveals pretty much nothing about you and help them figure out what is used and what fails.

[msla]

I use a ton of software I don't pay for which also doesn't spy on me.

Or are you making some weird accusations against the FSF and the GNU Project?

[tunap]

Give them time to find new "opportunities" to monetize...

https://news.microsoft.com/2017/07/19/dun-bradstreet-teams-u...