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The right license in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world. So, wake up, Mister Torvalds. Wake up and… smell the ashes…

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It’s ok. I have the crack.

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Good, but what does it have to do with Linux

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FXLinux?

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Even after paying, windows sells our info, every keystroke.

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Any proof? Kinda seems like major privacy violation if it sold our keystrokes like that.

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Cortana enhanced program, enhanced tipe writing, voice recognition. Maybe they don’t sell it directly, but the register every move.

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Again, proof? Articles? Anything? Pretty bold statement without evidence.

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Is it really that bad? I haven’t used it in years so I’m not following it. Do they literally have a built-in keylogger?

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Think about it practically. Microsoft is not an advertising company, they make their money from enterprise software. Windows is installed on billions of computers. The infrastructure required to accept and process every single key pressed by every single windows user and turn it into something usable would be enormous. And for what? To make a few extra millions by selling it to some advertising company?

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Microsoft is an advertising company just like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple. Bing search and Edge browser in Windows are a few ways ads are shown to users. Netflix is using Microsoft ads network for their platform to show to their subscribers. Companies pay a lot of money to get preferential suggestions/queries on their stores and search engines.

https://about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/microsoft-audience-network

Microsoft generates over 10 billion US Dollars per year in revenue from their advertisement division. The revenue growth from their advertisement business is growing exponentially at around 10 percent every year.

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Definitely not, that would be an absurd privacy violation

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Microsoft does collect a lot of data. But storing every keystroke is first of all impractical, because it would take a lot of disk space to store every keystroke of every user, and secondly not very useful unless they also knew when, in which application, and in what context each key was pressed.

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Ahaha, privacy. Yeah.

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Yeah I guess it was hyperbole but I wasn’t sure

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