Uninstall windows. Done.
Click Yes.
You could try clicking Yes once, and then immediately switching it back, either to DuckDuckGo or Google.
Edge/Windows is literally the technological equivalent of an obsessive ex-girlfriend.
That’s not as bad. Imagine if it was the equivalent of an obsessive ex-boyfriend.
With a crazy disposition to boot.
Makes me quite disposed to dual-boot
Relevant blog post …from 2016!
A bullet?
My suggestion is to download something like Windows Privacy Dashboard and disabling/uninstalling as much telemetry options as possible.
I’ve never got that kind of ad push, so i have to ask where you got it? Was it from using the search bar beside the start button? If so, maybe completely disabling and uninstalling Cortana might fix it.
Install linux
Install Gentoo
if you like it sure why not
Most obvious comment ever. I wish this were the answer to everything, but its not,
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Personally I’m downvoting because of the unnecessary violence
Sucks to suck.
Downvoting because “tard”
For example, how do I have the best experience gaming… Switch to Lin… Oh ಠ_ಠ
I wish gaming on linux was bad. That’d have saved me countless hours :')
Getting there
I literally haven’t had a problem gaming on Linux since I switched over two years ago
Lutris and Proton babyyy.
Thanks for this comment. I’m planning on making the switch soon, just need to find a low-fuss distro that I like.
I’ve been using Nobara for about a year, maybe more and it really is no fuss. Comes with most things you need ready out of the box, or easily added with the post install tool. Only thing I added was Heroic Games Launcher. I set up a just in case Windows partition, but haven’t booted it since making the switch.
Great choice, Nobara is built on Fedora and Fedora is one of the most stable distros ever.
Have you heard of the Steam Deck?
Linux has been a great gaming experience for me. Optimizations and what not make my games run faster than they ever did on windows. Also not being able to play rainbow six siege is a plus in my book
Tbh, I installed Mint on my gaming pc and all the games I‘m currently playing (mostly cities skylines and mechabellum) and everything worked out of the box. Mechabellum performes a bit worse than on Win11 but it‘s good enough to enjoy the game.
Do you mod cities skylines? If so, did you mods and save files transfer over from Windows?
Both are handled through steam (cloud and workshop subscriptions) so both saves and mods were automatically synced after installation.
That being said, you have to manually enable the mods within CS, but you have to do that under windows as well after a fresh installation.
However, I‘m missing some buildings (the european looking schools), but I didn‘t bother yet to find out what happened to them.
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I don’t know what people are doing in Windows to get all these ads. I’ve never seen a single one.
Are you in the USA? I learnt that most of these ads are shown to US users.
All of this stuff is A/B tested, region/locale divided, edition divided, hardware divided, based on what other stuff you’ve agreed to and more. You don’t have to do anything to encounter this stuff.
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Use Waterfox to confuse Windows and boost your performance
Waterfox has been bought by advertising and data analytics firm System1.
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“In July 2023, Alex Kontos announced that Waterfox had been turned into an independent project again.”
That’s very recent, I didn’t know.
I wouldn’t use a browser bought by a shady company when there are good alternatives. I wouldn’t want to support that company by using it.
That’s fair, but I get the feeling Waterfox wasn’t very profitable for them to begin with.
I personally use it because it fills the very specific niche of re-enabling support for the legacy add-on format by default. You can do this in Firefox and other derivatives, but it’s kind of a pain and it’s easily undone by updates. I don’t know of any alternatives that do the same thing.
legacy add-on format
What do you need that for?
Tab groups like in the reply below, but also a number of other things such as a fully functional revival of DownThemAll (the webextension version still isn’t as powerful), and a number of other useful addons from here.
Plus, I like to write my own complete themes, and it’s far more convenient to package them into installable XPI files than it is to just use userChrome.css, since they can be easily distributed and updated automatically.
https://github.com/mk-pmb/TabGroupsManagerRevived/
https://www.ghacks.net/2014/03/21/tabgroups-manager-displays-firefox-tab-groups-frontend/
The best tab group manager that I have ever encountered.
- I don’t care that much about privacy anyway. I don’t really get why privacy geeks talk about Google collecting your searches while willingly keeping Mozilla telemetry (which is something W disables by default) on. What’s the difference? I get why Google shouldn’t be collecting external data but I have no issue at all with giving them the data I actually input. Plus Firefox has a lot more deals with bad privacy groups like Google, Fakespot, and Pocket.
- You can’t make the assumption that they got worse on privacy just because they got bought. They’re open-source, show me the code.
- Waterfox is said to be slightly faster. They also seem to have a lot more focus for development.
- Waterfox disables some of the Mozilla BS, like Pocket and that weird redesign of tabs to floating, by default.
use a service like o&o shutup that’ll cripple this among other bloat.
switch to Bing
This is the way
Wait, you had this WHILE using chrome on win10? Jesus
MacOS 👍
Perhaps use redirect scripts or plugins or apps. Windows often about registry so do try that.
