This guy has no clue... There are things you can do and begging microsoft to not harvest their data is not one of them. You need to leave your current tech and embrace freedom tech. Use Nostr, ubuntu, touch, linux, and TOX a peer to peer message service not effected by AWS down time.

I used TOX in the past but nowadays I like SimpleX

does SimpleX have a server?

Yes, this makes it more convenient to communicate when one party isnt online 👍