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• kieron115@startrek.website ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Second paragraph isn’t wrong though.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think so. I don’t think it is blown out of proportion, I actually think it is that bad, and I also think that if you think you can just disable it and be done with it, you don’t have any experience with microsoft products and services. they regularly reset privacy settings, both on windows, and yesterday I found that even in their android apps like the swiftkey keyboard.

    another example of this tendency, is that a few days ago I was helping a friend with computer problems who stuck on windows 7, and I have seen that microsoft yas gone out of its way to push an update or something that installed their edge browser, pinned it to the taskbar and automatically opened it on boot.

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve never had that issue on Professional editions of Windows 10 or 11. Home edition? Maybe. But Pro lets you override almost anything you want with group security policies.

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      • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I also rely on group policies. they do get reverted. o&o shutup10 has a feature to detect it and point that out, and I see it almost every time I open it. I use it rarely per machine, but I use it on multiple machines and each does this.

        then sometimes the setting is just ignored. I was baffled when the policy to disable the start menu automatic bing search -which basically uploads all your local searches to microsoft bing - did not work, even after 2 reboots. I think it was this year, perhaps the last one

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