“Where’s the buss stop?” Bam, you just collected information that could be useful.

All it took was a MS buyout…

Fo shizzle

I blocked their instance a few days ago when I noticed the described behavior. Good, now I won’t see all the ‘empty’ comments

Is this why my grub disappeared? I didnt pay attention on my gaming pc and then a few weeks later I noticed when I wanted to boot into linux. Fucking windows.

Not in France!

I learned that many things take less than 5 minutes and the joy of having something finished felt way better than putting it off

That would be great if it happens. Lets hope we get a class of helpers or butlers that do not phone home, but build on top of open models and protocols

And will it run locally away from all the tracking and ads? Thats what I thought.

Exactly, if that’s what you set it to. Opting out is made extremely hard on many sites. This addon fixes that

I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.

There is “i dont care about cookies”, but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!

You can uninstall it with winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.

What about winget? I ripped out a whole bunch of stuff (like cortana) from W10 when winget became available. Best thing MS has done for windows in years