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[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

isn't the windows search bar a giant always on ad for edge and Bing?

also windows advertises a lot of their cloud/subscription services in notifications and settings to me

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I suppose - I always disable it as part of my initial setup steps, I have actually never used it.

I've only seen shilling for 360 in the account panel, though. Never in the notification tray.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

You can turn that off

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

yeah, through registry keys

no normal user is going to do that

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Registry is just the settings panel in windows now

But the normal user can download random programs off the internet to do it for them

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

bloat at best, virus at worst

regedit isn't hard enough to justify a registry editor app

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

We are talking about normal users

The ones whom in yesteryear would have half their browser be toolbars

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