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Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure this is intended to block software thst could do things like remove Copilot and all the OS level advertising they keep populating windows with.

[–] kadu 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There's a literal native toggle to disable Copilot so that'd be really weird.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Until there isn't a toggle

[–] Plopp 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's just a miniscule step of enshittification away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Death by a thousand cuts.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago

There's a toggle

Becomes

There's a toggle but we moved it deep into a sub menu

Becomes

If you toggle it off it also breaks a lot of other things you want to have

Becomes

Toggle it off if you want but it's still going to run in the background

Until the EU sues and forces them to have an option to actually remove it.