every Windows 11 machine out of the box, without asking the customer, and before they even try to use the internet. Besides, some of the servers and services Windows 11 connects to have absolutely nothing to do with computing—all they do is track and collect your data to sell it to ad providers without improving your PC experience in the slightest (unless you count ads relevance). And the "best" part is that Windows 11 is not free—you still have to pay for the operating system and all the data probes that come bundled with it