Meh. Pretty useless IMHO. There are plenty of tricks to apply after this basic stuff and even then, they will try to insert new telemetry on every small update. It’s now worth the fight. Try to switch to Linux mint and have a dual boot for relevant software like Adobe.

This is definitely a “you” problem. Something is worng with your installation or OS

Chromium based. Has the same issues.

Lol. They definitely know what’s going on.