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There are five privacy options that include: Location, Diagnostics, Relevant Ads, Speech recognition, and Tailored experiences with diagnostic data. That last item is a fancy way to say “tips and recommendations,” or as most Windows 10 users call it, “stuff I don’t want.”

Exactly.

Microsoft has decided that it is in the business of violating its customers' privacy in order to better target them with unwanted advertising. We don't know the other ways that Microsoft uses our personal data. However, after the forced Win 10 upgrade fiasco, we do know that Microsoft cannot be relied on to be ethical.

I just read that there are now more Android devices in the world than Windows devices. Such a shock.

If you use Windows 10 and are worried about its spying, it probably helps to install O&O Shut Up 10: https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10. Be very careful with the program's configuration, or you may accidentally shut off Windows updates entirely.

[[Microsoft has decided that it is in the business of violating its customers’ privacy in order to better target them with unwanted advertising.]]

and that is it in a nutshell-

[[However, after the forced Win 10 upgrade fiasco, we do know that Microsoft cannot be relied on to be ethical.]]

Exactly, they have jumped the shark now, and there’s no turning back- They have made an executive decision to violate their user’s basic ‘rights to privacy’ as it were- and force more crap on us that we don’t want-

I hope this spurs a larger tech savvy organization to create an os like windows 7 used to be- I’m sure MS will try to crush them- but if they suceed, we will at least have control back and i think many people would switch from MS