Comment Re:Disable it! (Score 1) 198
What difference does that make from a privacy perspective? How do I legitimately install apps on my (imaginary) iPhone outside of Apple's install channel?
Again, Microsoft is not reporting what you install. It is sending a filename and hash of executables you download via IE to Microsoft to compare against a blacklist.
This is on top of the regular SmartScreen filter, which reports URLs to Microsoft to compare against a blacklist and which has been pretty uncontroversial for years, same as Chrome. (I still disagree with it.)
So you don't like it? Well, there's a big notice explaining what it does giving you the option to disable it. Or you could use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or whatever and it gets reported to Google instead of Microsoft.