firm nod. a common mistake people make is to look at a piece of remotely-controlled software and assume it will keep on doing only what it does now, forgetting we're in the enshittocene, and that software that's not under your control *will* be enshittified to better exploit you.
this pile of personal data that MS is going to collect on your computer will *initially* only be used for local searches, but it is quite fitting as a strategy for Microsoft to challenge Google's and Meta's dominance in targeted advertising, with data that Google and Meta haven't dared collect yet, to the best of my knowledge