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I'm sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.
There's a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that'd be really weird.
Until there isn't a toggle
It's just a miniscule step of enshittification away.
Death by a thousand cuts.
There's a toggle
Becomes
There's a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu
Becomes
If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have
Becomes
Toggle it off if you want but it's still going to run in the background
Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.