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What, you make me laugh. Someone is touchy. Now seriously and just to be clear I don't work for Microsoft and I don't like their bullshit nor I endorse it and I would rather never touch their solutions in my life.
However, I'm not "delusional" about Linux desktop nor I'm so out of touch with Windows' reality to the point I say that you can't disable the spyware like you did - because you can do it and you can also prove it with Wireshark.
Microsoft doesn't have your best interests in mind, that's for sure, they won't probably care about the petition but at the end of the day history repeats itself and there will be a lot of companies and governments using Windows 10 that will essentially make them (pay) to extend its lifetime. About spyware, those same countess companies and government agencies force Microsoft to have group policy settings to disable the "spyware" otherwise they can't use it. In short, Microsoft has all the right incentives to properly document Windows' spyware and develop options to disable it.