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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)
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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act::Microsoft has published a blog post detailing how it's making Windows 11 compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in the European Economic Area (EEA.)

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[–] 601error@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only in Europe. For the rest of us, they will make sure to leave in all the enshittification that Makes Windows Worse Again.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wonder if you could VPN into the EU and run windows update to get rid of the shit and if it would come back once you closed the connection.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the first thing I thought of too. How awesome would that be to be able to uninstall all that garbage?

That being said, there has to be registry values that are set to flag it in the OS. Friends in the EU need to make a backup of the registry before updating and then check afterwards to see what changed.

[–] Brandon@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Dude excellent idea. Regshot before and after. It could be something as simple as a user running a registry editing script.

[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

The country is chosen while installing Windows. Currently, if you use Windows International, you already lose a bunch of bloatware

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure you can just change your regional settings, I always install selecting English UK and I've never seen most of the shit people post on Lemmy.