rmogullFeb 2, 2023

Having been on Macs for the past 20 years I was totally unprepared for all the dark patterns I had to navigate setting up a new Windows system.

Constant ads and pushes for additional products. Extensive privacy-violating monitoring defaults. Everything disguised to be for my benefit, but clearly it’s to benefit Microsoft.

MS is actually great at a lot of things. This demeans them.

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@rmogull Entirely anecdotal, but I perceived a drift in this direction when Microsoft reorganized Trustworthy Computing out of existence.

All the functions still exist, but their diffusion throughout Microsoft seemed (again, to me) to coincide with MS taking some liberties with consumer privacy options.

Feb 2, 2023 at 11:39pmWeb
Show threadrmogullFeb 3, 2023
@scribandotcom totally agree