I guess, to truly take a stand against invasion of privacy, you could work all your taxes in the stand-alone software, and then copy all the data to paper forms and file by mail. Of course, you'd have to skip any of the "review" wizards that look for errors, since that is a round trip to the server.
Truthfully, my taxes have become far less complicated in the last 30 years, and I could just do them manually. The convenience of importing all the boiler plate from the prior year is a big time-saver, though.
For now I'm switching back to H&R Block. I had been using H&R for several years, ever since the year TT dropped a massive price increase on us without warning or apology. I only came back to Turbo a couple years ago. I'm quite sure H&R '25 can ingest my TT data file from last year.
This might be the year I just dump Windows and run a Linux variant, like Mint. The open versions of Excel, Word, etc. aren't nearly as polished and pretty. But I rarely share data with anyone, anymore, anyway.
It's just so tiresome to *change* again. Ha!
