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Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled Bloatware (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 2 years ago by fne8w2ah to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Is there a way to disable the ads, news and recommendations yet? Until then I'm not upgrading.

[–] Lobotomie 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Tbf you can disable all of that so there is barely (if any) difference to win10 in regards to this.

[–] varjen 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's weird that people don't get more upset about ads in an OS they paid for.

[–] OskarAxolotl 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Who said I paid for it?

[–] varjen 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I didn't mean you specifically. It was more in general.

[–] krakenx 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

In Windows, the ads can be easily disabled. I still don't like it, but it only adds about 5 minutes to the setup process and then it doesn't bother me again.

Android TV's entire interface is ads, it gets worse with every forced update and there is basically nothing that you can do about. I'm looking for an alternative to my ancient ad-filled Nvidia Shield (which didn't have any ads day 1...), but I don't think anything else with a controller based interface can easily run Steam Link, Kodi, Retroarch, and still pass the DRM checks for 4k Netflix and Disney+.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

When they added the first banner ad, I sideloaded Aptoide TV and installed F-Launcher. I never looked back.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you point me in the direction of how disable truly all of it? I don't want news/ads/recommendations in the start button, bottom bar, icon tray, search results etc.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

WinAeroTweaker will let you decide what junk you want to disable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Disabling all of those are standard settings in Windows 10 and 11.

Most are just right click on the icon/taskbar, opening settings and finding the setting that disables it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Not entirely. There are many, many hidden telemetry settings that normal users can't access. It's why stuff like WPD (windows privacy dashboard) exist. Windows doesn't let you uninstall most of that stuff either.