Fortunately, even on Windows, you can set a lot of the stupid tracking to localhost via the LMHOSTS (i.e., open graph and facebook crap), except for the microsoft sites which bypass LMHOST. Would love it for a freeper to post a work around, but I have not seen anything yet. New Linux Machine on order. Cannot wait. Thankfully I use throw away email accounts. Can drop the email and everything resets.
Agree... Actually, as it gets worse I keep thinking about going to Unix. I guess I’m just waiting for a more normal upgrade and easily usable system with other software out there. Not there yet, but it is getting close. When that happens, Microsoft will be out of a job.