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Interesting. I wonder why they don't take it down immediately when they absolutely can
It's probably just not worth it. MS makes the vast, vast majority of thier money on Windows licenses from the corporate sector and OEMs. Any revenue "lost" to MAS is a rounding error on thier toilet paper budget for thier offices.
Both those posts on reddit are people being paranoid (especially the pchelp post, that user is self-admittedly ignorant), perhaps not wrongly, but it is open source and used frequently enough I'd imagine someone would have said something if there were issues.
Personally, I've used it probably 3-4x without any issues. Take that for what you will.
EDIT: Manual instructions are here if you wanna be really, really sure.
Ensuring everyone runs Windows maintains their monopoly and also keeps the user data siphon net as wide as possible. They don't give a shit as long as you are feeding them personal data and are using Windows.
Because they don't make Jack shit on consumer licenses.