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Windows is free. MSFT is literally siphoning data from your personal devices.

You’re speaking on an agenda without accounting for reality



More than 80 percent of Google's revenue comes directly from selling your privacy to advertisers --- aka "personalized" ads.

More then 80 percent of MSFT's revenue comes directly from selling software and services.

Google earns about as much money from privacy invasion as MSFT does from software and data services. You can try to deny or ignore the reality of it --- but you have nothing to refute it other than personal bias.


Question is who is more predatory not who makes more money


How do you measure "predatory" if not by revenue/money made?

Google's privacy invasion spans the globe.

They have the world's most popular browser feeding them user's web activity. They have the most popular mobile OS feeding them users' physical location. They operate the world's most popular email service feeding them users mail habits and purchase receipts. They have trackers embedded on virtually all of the world's most popular web sites.

It is really possible for anyone to get more "predatory" than Google?


You’re again confusing being large with being more predatory.

There are more mosquitoes than tigers


Windows isn't free, you are paying a licensing fee when you buy a PC, it's just baked into the price and you don't realize it. If you tried shipping out PCs without a license, you'd be promptly found out and sued (at least in Western countries).




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