On: Today I realized I now trust Microsoft more than Google. What is happening?

[wiseowise]

The original comment was talking about VS Code, wasn't it?

[CoastalCoder → wiseowise]

I was speaking more generally about MS vs. Google.

[bastardoperator → CoastalCoder]

You can turn off telemetry on Windows, you can try blocking Google from a network or DNS perspective, but in most cases that renders the site in an unusable state.