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    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

    You can turn that off

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    yeah, through registry keys

    no normal user is going to do that

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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 1 year ago (1 children)

    bloat at best, virus at worst

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

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

    We are talking about normal users

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