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If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon (www.xda-developers.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Setting preferences is exactly what this is, though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Having to tell your computer that “My preference is no bloat and marketing.” is a sad state of affairs though.

My whole point is these things shouldn’t need to be configured. Because the bloat and marketing shouldn’t be part of the OS like this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I've worked with a Linux installation that had plenty of bloat and marketing by default too, I spent a fair bit of time combing through it turning off stuff I definitely didn't want. Whether it "should" or "shouldn't" doesn't change that it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

But updates can and do reset them.

Group Policy really helps - I don't think I've had an update reset a policy... Yet.