Comment by Rygian

> I've uninstalled Copilot and disabled AI in all local applications

Depending on which vendors you trust, they will enable AI features on your local machine later on anyway.

> Switching to Linux, BSD or another open source operating system is the only real solution to this problem.

I hope this is right, and I'd argue it is not enough. You also need trustable vendors for your web-browser and web-based apps.