The tips, ads, and recommendations you see will be more generic and may be less relevant to you.
And this is treated as a bad thing?!
The number of ads you see won’t change, but they may be less relevant to you.
Send only info about your device, its settings and capabilities, and whether it is performing properly.
In other words, even after turning off all the settings, your data still gets collected.
The rest of the installation process wasn’t fun either. It was worded in this weird, condescending tone, like “Let’s get everything set up for you”, and “Let Cortana help you get things done!”.
Thank goodness for FLOSS and GNU/Linux.
One of the many reasons I always run privacy.sexy every time I need to install windows (on both bare metal and inside a VM).
I shall yoink that, thank you very much.
Yoink it so effing hard!
What the fuck. How have I never seen this before?
I second this, I use it all the time.