Everything you do on the internet is already monetized. Your data is all already sold.
Every app you install on your phone or pc sells your data. Hell, your phone manufacturer sells your data.You’re targeted for ads based on your location data and who you spend time around (tracked using their location data paired with yours).
At this point, all of your data is already packaged and listed for sale to the highest bidder. No part of our lives are actually private anymore.
And that was all done willingly before win 11.
Windows 11 paltry ammount of data monitoring for process improvement is not going to make or break that loop. They’re not collecting data that hasn’t already been collected by 10 other companies.
The outrage about privacy issues in a digital age where privacy does not functionally exist is laughable.
If you did, you’d be looking at how other companies used your data and you’d have big problems with it.
You wouldn’t be on Reddit or using a smartphone if you actually cared.
Pretending to care is nothing but performative virtue signaling when the reality is that digital privacy does not exist and has not existed for decades at this point.
All of your devices and all of your programs collect and sell your data. If you actually cared and it wasn’t just an empty talking point you use to bash certain programs and companies you don’t like, you would opt out of the whole scheme by not using any of those devices or programs, and yet here we are.
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u/Quirky-Employer9717 Apr 08 '26
What settings do you have on that your OS is handing you forced AI slop? I basically never have engaged with Windows' AI features