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You don't. Look into degoogled ROMs, MicroG, Aurora store, and f-droid.
Oh sure, sure. My point is that Google asked for the same thing as MS, and I mindlessly gave it to them.
I'll look into degoogling at some point.
One difference is there was already value with having a gmail account. What's the point of getting a Microsoft account? The only thing I can see is it makes settings set up/transfer easy between PCs and for reinstalls.
Except, if I'm reinstalling, I can't imagine waiting to copy settings since one of those settings is probably causing a problem and I don't want it to be automatically set for me. I also don't use the Microsoft store so...
Does anyone else actually get value from their Microsoft account? If not, It just feels like it's only purpose is giving them (more) access to your computer. Why would anyone want that?