As I mentioned above. I do not like Microsoft, but there is a difference of intention. In your over-characterization, you forget the fact that they provide product/services to users. Regardless of their strategies and how they build their bottom line, they provide users something in exchange for money. Regardless if the thing they provide has far reaching consequences or happens to be built for better fingerprinting, it’s been long enough of this that informed users know the trade offs.

I am so shocked at the amount of people that think someone who wants to siphon your livelihood in a parasitic fashion is equivalent to a corporation that you have to conceivably opt into using. Users can make choices in the products they use. This person injected themselves as a man in the middle in user’s lives. Completely different circumstances and not at all the same intention.