Of course they are without any data privacy laws companies are going to collect and then sell as much of your personal data that they can get away with.

This didn’t come to light until recently see this article that the posted article links to.

For me it’s the removal and change of UI elements. There is still no built in way to move the task bar to the top or side of the screen and to get a useful right click menu back I have to go into the registry and change a value. There is also the whole thing where you are forced to use a Microsoft account with no option to use a local account instead.

It’s still technically production season 10. Networks and Streamers love to order a bunch of episodes then split them in half and call it two seasons as a way to spend less money.

Production season 11 has been ordered and should air in 2025 and 2026.

Every year I tune into this and every I stop watching because the host segments are so bad. Just show us the games and not the cringey wrap around segments they seem to think we want.