this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023

2216 points (99.2% liked)

Technology

59323 readers

5276 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

2216

Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

392 comments fedilink hide all child comments

First RCS now this, today has been wild

(page 4) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

...what happened? Did someone in upper management realize, it would be more expensive to suck?

load more comments (4 replies)

[–] totallynotfbi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Wow, are we getting Windows N again?

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it won't force Secure boot anymore?

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I might upgrade now from 10. Imagine giving what consumers want.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

What about RCS?

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It does specify the European economic area for (EEA) for these changes. Looks like I'm living in Europe ;)

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] alldreadme@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only in the EU right? Also what's up with RCS?

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I always hear people complaining about ads on their win 11 and it confuses me, as I've never seen a single ad in my win 11 install.

In what section are the ads showing up?

load more comments (3 replies)

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

It seems in some cases when it comes to protecting you from industry practices can only be handled by government agencies.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder if this affects any of the telemetry systems they use to send user data back to the mothership (Microsoft servers)? I haven't looked into it in a while but there used to be a powershell script to disable a lot of it in the registry.

[–] gullible@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I wonder whether Microsoft makes enough money on analytics and ads worldwide, minus Europe, to split off a separate dev team. I hope not, but I think they do… Please choose the easier, objectively better option and just make these a checkbox for everyone, windows.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

What happened with RCS?

load more comments