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Noticed Edge was the default browser (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can turn that off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yeah, through registry keys

no normal user is going to do that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

bloat at best, virus at worst

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

We are talking about normal users

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