[hilbert42]

I'm surprised some enterprising hackers haven't hacked the binaries to nuke telemetry permanently (one used to see lots of Win hacks in the past).

But then, perhaps I've not been looking hard enough (I mostly use Penguin).

[Aeolun]

I think some enterprising hackers have long ago switched to a less hostile OS.

[hilbert42]

Reckon that's true (I mostly use Linux). Trouble is, Windows has such wide usage and large legacy that one often can't avoid it (some important commercial/industrial software just won't work under, say, Wine no matter how much tweaking and unfortunately there's no Linux version).