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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] RaoulDook 133 points 1 year ago

3rd party ads lead to the roulette wheel of malware injection. M$ can't even keep the malware links off of their garbage MSN homepage on Edge. This would be an extremely dumb move, and they will do it anyway because it trades off security for money.