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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷12/29/2018 12:57:17 pm PST

re: #361 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ads “in the operating system itself” Oh HELL no! How are not people converging on Redmond with torches and pitchforks? MicroShaft needs to be cleansed with fire.

They can be shut off, as the CNet article notes. The problem is Microsoft doesn’t tell you how to shut those adverts off.

Moreover, Microsoft programs are very promiscuous with other Microsoft programs.

For example, Microsoft’s individual ID allows Cortana to display things in a search which are tailored to your computer. I have Office for Business 2016, which means such things can be displayed in Office programs.

If you have a wireless router which is open (or others have the password for it), Microsoft Windows computers around you will download updates from your computer rather than Microsoft (it saves them bandwidth). That’s another privacy setting which can be shut off.

If you have Windows 10, searching for all the privacy settings to secure your computer is one of the first things you should do.