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You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe (www.ghacks.net)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] answersplease77 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Can you just do right click uninstall? or do you have to follow a 12 step hacker method that would cause updates to stop working until you reinstall windows again?

Windows has become the most bloated ad-infested spyware os in existance and more people are leaving it more than ever before. In just few more years, it will be a thing of the past

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Reading the article, you do some registry edits to tell Windows that it's in Europe. Then you uninstall as if you were in Europe. No word on what other consequences this might have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you have to tell Windows that you are in Europe then the title is nonsense.

"You too can drink alcohol even if you're underage"... All you have to do is Lie, and get a fake ID". > Wow thanks.

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