While writing my most recent comprehensive guide to improve privacy on Windows 11, I started noticing just how many settings you have to manage to reduce the amount of data Microsoft collects from devices and users.
At one point, I genuinely thought I would never finish that set of instructions. Every time I believed I had found the last toggle, another appeared somewhere else. And even after turning off and reconfiguring dozens of default options, it’s still unclear how much data the company continues…

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