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At least in some countries, it legally may not constitute actual consent if the text is so unintelligible to a normal user that they don’t understand what exactly they’re consenting to. And we all know that most users just click “Agree” without understanding what exactly they’re agreeing to because that’s the only way they can get their work done.


"To provide these services, Microsoft needs to be able to collect your search terms and document content" seems pretty explicit to me. This is what the Office settings say underneath the checkbox

Another prompt ends in "Office will use your searches and document content to support and improve the Intelligent Services to you."

The individual popups seem to follow a simple "what is it, what are some examples of it, what are you consenting to" structure. Any less details and you have no idea what you're agreeing to, any more details and you'll quickly lose people in the "EULA too long" problem.

I disagree that agreeing is the only way people will get their work done. There are many ways to translate text and the "let me design a PowerPoint for you" feature is nothing more than a nice to have. There are plenty of offline themes to choose from and individual themes to download without ever enabling this setting.




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