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Is it though? Microsoft .NET has telemetry that you always have to opt out always. Dark patterns like this setting not sticking but being overridden after an update, and of course the shell command that you kinda have to google each time, where you set a parameter to "1" and get no verification that you have indeed successfully disabled telemetry come with the territory (of software vendors not respecting the user much)



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