Well, regarding Minecraft, they've had the "snooper settings" added to it a long time ago (Can't remember if it was pre or post microsoft though honestly). The snooper settings are turned on by default.
You have to trust mojang/microsoft that when you turn it off that it's truly off though, and that the list of variables it shows you as what it's reporting are truly the only things it's reporting. For now I am, but I wouldn't doubt it if someone managed to prove it's not doing what it says it's doing. I'll make the call to uninstall minecraft at that point. Probably giving mojang too much faith with this, but I'll let them burn their own boat.
The question is if microsoft would risk burning down the 2 billion dollar game they bought with bad karma before it's able to pay itself back. I'm sure after they've pulled in 2 billion dollars of profit off the game in sales (which is going to take a while) they might be more willing to burn it alongside their OS and developer karma.
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You have to trust mojang/microsoft that when you turn it off that it's truly off though, and that the list of variables it shows you as what it's reporting are truly the only things it's reporting. For now I am, but I wouldn't doubt it if someone managed to prove it's not doing what it says it's doing. I'll make the call to uninstall minecraft at that point. Probably giving mojang too much faith with this, but I'll let them burn their own boat.
The question is if microsoft would risk burning down the 2 billion dollar game they bought with bad karma before it's able to pay itself back. I'm sure after they've pulled in 2 billion dollars of profit off the game in sales (which is going to take a while) they might be more willing to burn it alongside their OS and developer karma.