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Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 7 months ago by AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Until there isn't a toggle

[–] Plopp@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's just a miniscule step of enshittification away.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Death by a thousand cuts.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 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.