I am going off topic for this too, but only once... The windows 10 privacy settins are ALL user settings... you can change them if you want.
Soo not going to windows 10 for privacy reasons is B*llsh*t.. there are lots of websites that can provide help changing the privacy settings and explain what they do...
I completely agree.
IIRC, Smartscreen was originally part of IE (Phishing Filter) and has evolved, not something new just for Windows 10.
Location Awareness/Geolocation - Your browser can do/does this anyway unless you disable it, or tell it no, and even then you aren't 'hidden'.
advertisement id - Guess what? Google uses them, Yahoo uses them, almost anyone who serves ads uses them and collects your data too! Oh noes!
It's always been possible to choose languages for a Website based on the ones installed on your computer, though it may be more advanced now.
You can disable packages you don't want from Windows Update (like drivers, ugh) using Powershell.
What exact Privacy concerns people have, I'll never know. Most of the things they added sliders for to disable, have been going on in the background for years. Whether it be from Websites, some of their update packages, or their other software. It seems more to me like the Privacy that people think they are losing, was never there to begin with, but people blindly think it is/was. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but go ahead and PM that.
Anyway, Windows 10 is fine if you know how to set it up and use Group Policy settings for some more annoying shit like Windows Defender adware, i mean bloatware. Some of my programs still run better on 7, but that's not saying
too much. I can say the same about XP and even that wannabe version, Vista.
/leofftopicend