That is so annoying and intrusive.
I solved most of my MS issues by using it inside a virtual machine and preventing that VM from accessing the outside world.
Now I can use Altium, AutoCAD, Revit & MS Office without being bothered by any form of spyware and/or advertising. I did initially have major slowdown issues with these applications (particularly the Autodesk ones) trying to phone home and having to wait for the connection to time out, but I solved that by putting a network re-direct in place so all outgoing requests end up at a local http server that returns a 404 for every request. Now all the applications start up promptly and I don't get stuck waiting for network timeouts.
Having said that, there is an ad for "Budget Multimeters" at the bottom of this web page, but only because I'm too lazy or stupid to have turned the ad-blocker on for eevblog.com.
As for the rest of your post. Yes you might have told us you have memory issues once or thirteen times. Some of me (I can't speak for others) is/are ok with that. I might have even mentioned that before, but you might not remember
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. That's ok too. I can be repetitive.