It’s not difficult to turn off.
Well everything is dandy fine then ? It’s no problem if someone does anything without consent as long as you can “easily” do something about it heh ?
It will turn itself back on during a background update, though. Should I be expected to check it daily to make sure Microscam isn’t stealing my data?
If you HAVE to use the toilet of an OS. Use a system(machine) startup script that runs a cleanupon every boot. Its a hot mess solution to a hot mess OS. But at the end of the day they cannot be trusted and changes are coming to windows access levels which will prevent the cleanup of “essential” apps, services, and configurations.
So switch to Mint.