Cannot thank you enough and wish I had come across this article sooner. I switched to Microsoft word as the default editor for all my writing in the last few months and used it to edit and publish my father's book on KDP (which bothers me a lot more). I used Google docs prior to that where the privacy settings were a lot more obvious, perhaps because of the general lack of trust in Google when it comes to privacy. I am still in disbelief that every single check box for 'connected experience' which is mostly a euphemism for scraping and collecting data was checked by default.