• TaTTe@lemmy.world
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      I believe this is very true. I’m from Europe and nothing in the greentext made any sense to me. Never seen a Windows install with any of the mentioned “features”.

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      Forget the “bloat”. Windows has an advertisements engine. I’m not talking about some stupid OEM bullshit bundled thing… I’m saying the operating system itself.

      My OS (that I fucking paid for, no less) shouldn’t be piping me advertisements and it sure as shit shouldn’t be harvesting screenshots to train an AI model.

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        Then just disable suggestions with a simple checkbox in the settings.

        Windows only has ads if you let it.

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          21 hours ago

          You can be upset about 2 things: where things are, and where things are going.

          It’s become very fashionable to ignore a trajectory. “Build 3 more prisons in El Salvador”.

          The issue isn’t that at this moment I can opt-out. The issue is that the infrastructure inevitably demands usage.

          If you’re not upset you’re a collaborator.