Comment by pndy

It's an illusion of choice. For over a decade now companies either are spamming you with modals/notifications up until you give up and agree to a compromising your privacy settings or "accidentally" turn these on and pretend that change happened by a mistake or bug.

Language used is deceptive and comes with "not now" or "later" options and never a permanent "no". Any disagreement is followed by a form of "we'll ask you again later" message.

Companies are deliberately removing user's control over software by dark patterns to achieve their own goals.

Advanced user may not want to have their data scanned for whatever reasons and with this setting it cannot control the software because vendor decided it's just 3 times and later settings goes permanent "on".

And considering all the AI push within Windows, Microsoft products is rather impossible to assume that MS will not be interested in training their algorithms on their customers/users data.

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And I really don't know how else you can interpret this whole talk with an unnamed "Microsoft's publicist" when:

> Microsoft's publicist chose not to answer this question

and

> We have nothing more to share at this time

but as a hostile behavior. Of course they won't admit they want your data but they want it and will have it.