| We didn't agree to turn our desktops into smartphones.

Interesting phrase. I wonder how many people
agreed to turn their computer phones into
tracking collars in the first place.

Phones are increasingly used as always-present,
portable computers with really bad keyboards. But
in the transition, control of the machine's operation
and data has been lost. Last week I was reading
about some 250 apps on iPhone that were collecting
data and that Apple vowed to shut down. It's like
thugs in Disneyland. People pay a bundle to Apple
for lock-in and thoroughgoing surveillance malware,
then don't have enough control of the device to even
know their data is being collected by secondary,
smalltime malware that doesn't pay Apple their cut.

As you're pointing out, Win10 seems to have also
crossed that boundary -- blocking control to such
an extent that there's no dependable way to know
exactly how much control has been lost.