This may be speculation but if you had to make a choice, I think you’d say it’s likely true.

Windows is nothing but a vehicle to Azure for Microsoft. But they’ll keep milking that cow for as long as they can get away with it. Slowly destroying it in the process. Windows 12 will be more ads, more telemetry, more spying and more data hoovering than ever before. We all know this to be true.

you can make your data available to the general public and help other open source apps to build their services on this data.

I like this idea.

I know I’m being lazy, but is the data sold? Are we just giving away our data for somebody else to monetize?

The self entitlement in open-source these days never fails to astound me.