Your comment, “ It is not your convenience that interests them, it’s your trackability and access (in the cloud) to your stuff that they seek to gain awareness of - awareness for THEIR purposes.” goes for more than Windows 10.
I implore everyone to consider those words in relation to you every action.
You are so right.
I’m sure someone at Google has an algorithm just for compiling FreeRepublic stuff, and - using everything else done from the same PC, ever - connecting it to our real identity. They don’t even need the NSA to do it. Facebook is trying to do it as well.