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Microsoft’s moves in this regard strike me as particularly evil. By packaging it into their product and rolling it out by default they’re helping normalize it.

For now the parts that are enabled by default (Daily digest etc) seem to only be visible to the user and announce that fact prominently.

But that does a lot to shift the conversation and acclimatise users to tracking. The jump for the hr module to be enabled is already much reduced vs installing 3rd party spyware software



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