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    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months 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 11 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 11 months ago (1 children)

    You can turn that off

    [–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    yeah, through registry keys

    no normal user is going to do that

    [–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

    We are talking about normal users

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