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palmotea 46 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support a...

> And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.

Can you elaborate on the "or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you" part?

Ctrl-F isn't finding any mention of that in either https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-10-quietly-gets-one-more... or https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-03-12/i-ll-probably-never-....

mkl 46 days ago [–]

It's in the linked Neowin article on how to get the updates: https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-get-one-more-year-of-wi...

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