This is a reasonable reaction to this. I pause when accusations jump immediately to spying as other explanations can exist without adding to FUD and noise online. It's not always difficult to find the purpose of something either with a bit more digging.
I've seen something similar occur for some popular Youtube videos, too. A video author will fire up some arbitrary Windows setup, which can come bundled with third-party software and use Bing for various things including weather in the taskbar and queries in the search bar, then open Wireshark to scaremonger with DNS queries, accusing Microsoft of spying just for requests made by the services/programs/features they have enabled in their install.
When often cursory lookups of the domains in search engines show what their purpose is and are contrary to such videos' alleged (and worse, guessed) purpose.
It's a problem as there are legitimate concerns with certain aspects of Windows software with non-privacy respecting defaults but for an average user it gets muddled with irrelevant/incomplete info that doesn't lead to high quality actionable results.
I've seen something similar occur for some popular Youtube videos, too. A video author will fire up some arbitrary Windows setup, which can come bundled with third-party software and use Bing for various things including weather in the taskbar and queries in the search bar, then open Wireshark to scaremonger with DNS queries, accusing Microsoft of spying just for requests made by the services/programs/features they have enabled in their install.
When often cursory lookups of the domains in search engines show what their purpose is and are contrary to such videos' alleged (and worse, guessed) purpose.
It's a problem as there are legitimate concerns with certain aspects of Windows software with non-privacy respecting defaults but for an average user it gets muddled with irrelevant/incomplete info that doesn't lead to high quality actionable results.