[floopidydoopidy]

Seriously? Linux and BSD, for example, give you complete control over all the information harvested from you.

[bostand]

Most of the time. Do you remember Ubuntu amazon search? Their geolocation database?

[uabstraction]

Yeah, one distribution tried this a few years back, got grilled to a char by the community for it, and swiftly trashed the idea. This is nothing like Microsoft turning Windows into one giant dark pattern and trying to convince the world that it's progress while showing no signs of backing down despite the overwhelming backlash.

Ubuntu's Amazon integration was a failed experiment in an ecosystem with literally hundreds of other players to choose from while Microsoft's Windows telemetry is an inescapable dogma forced upon all Windows users.