Reply to post: Re: Telemetry.. it's not's not even needed. Why is it allowed?

Re: Telemetry.. it's not's not even needed. Why is it allowed?

[Greengrocers] don't refuse to let you buy a product...

Unlike your friendly neighbourhood greengrocer MSFT[1] refuse to let you "buy a product" with or without telemetry. They let you use their "groceries" until they decide they won't let you anymore. Among the multitude of conditions you must agree to to get their permission to stroke a cucumber sending them the data on yourself and your friends and colleagues and casual acquaintances[2] looks like just a detail indeed.

Notes:

[1] MSFT are not the only ones, to be fair - looks like SOP nowadays. And while your friendly neighbourhood greengrocer may still accept cash supermarket chains make serious efforts to encourage/force you to use traceable means of payment - for slurping and for adjusting prices/discounts not in your favour , Governments, too, actively seek ways to legislate cashless societies, partly for getting all the taxes, partly for "telemetry", because "terrrism", because "think of the children", whatever.

[2] That, IMHO, is even worse than slurping your data. You, at least, agreed to EULA (sort of).