content: It's not that he "thinks" Microsoft wants his stuff, it's a well known fact that Microsoft updates multiple versions of Windows to send very large amounts of data about your computer usage back to them.  It's a known fact they want everybody's "stuff".  As for the ISP having your stuff, that's something you can prevent.   Personally I use a VPN connection to access the internet for most of what I do.  Not because I'm hiding bad stuff from my ISP but because I have better performance on YouTube, Twitch, and other streaming services when my ISP doesn't know what the data I'm downloading is.    When Comcast can't see that I'm on one of these services my download/streams run better, even on the slower VPN connection.