> Windows 11 effectively forces users to register with a Microsoft account.

It takes zero effort to bypass that with Rufus, if you set up your own pc.

BitwiseFool 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My comment was in regard to the average PC user. The kinds of folks who would never install an operating system and would likely agree to use Edge while signed in to their Microsoft account.

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		Microsoft has also been pushing hard for Recall and recording all local activity forever. Not impossible to imagine that anything looking like a home address “somehow” gets ingested in the telemetry.

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AngryData 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A bypass existing is good, needing a bypass in the first place is still a problem.