Microsoft is using Windows 11 for advertising in a way that may cause less experienced people to be exploited by malicious or low value software.
The Windows menu just advertised a VPN solution to me. Are VPNs bad? No. Are most of the VPNs who advertise bad? Absolutely.
You shouldn't have to be an expert at computers in order to use one safely. A consumer should be able to trust that their OS maker isn't getting paid to present malicious advertising on their computers. This is vile.
Microsoft is using Windows 11 for advertising in a way that may cause less experienced people to be exploited by malicious or low value software.
The Windows menu just advertised a VPN solution to me. Are VPNs bad? No. Are most of the VPNs who advertise bad? Absolutely.
You shouldn't have to be an expert at computers in order to use one safely. A consumer should be able to trust that their OS maker isn't getting paid to present malicious advertising on their computers. This is vile.
@EveHasWords windows 2000 was, for me, the perfect work OS. It just got out of the way and let you do stuff and was rock solid (compared to 95/98, which was what everyone else was using in the office at the time)
VPNs are good for circumventing censorship and geoblocks. The internet in Russia is severely broken without one right now. But that's it. Those who market a commercial VPN as a privacy tool are severely misrepresenting it, to put it mildly.
In my own opinion, an operating system should not make its own network requests, period. Maybe some update checking when the user intentionally wants it to happen. But modern Windows straight up behaves like malware. I have ARM Windows 11 on a VM. I deleted Windows Defender, Edge, telemetry services and the updater to make it usable. Not all the cutesy group policy registry things, no, I used the recovery mode command prompt that ignores NTFS permissions to delete these files.
VPNs are good for circumventing censorship and geoblocks. The internet in Russia is severely broken without one right now. But that's it. Those who market a commercial VPN as a privacy tool are severely misrepresenting it, to put it mildly.
In my own opinion, an operating system should not make its own network requests, period. Maybe some update checking when the user intentionally wants it to happen. But modern Windows straight up behaves like malware. I have ARM Windows 11 on a VM. I deleted Windows...
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@EveHasWords Just what's going on in the Windows world. Ads in the start menu? X_X
The Windows I left was at least usable.
@EveHasWords windows 2000 was, for me, the perfect work OS. It just got out of the way and let you do stuff and was rock solid (compared to 95/98, which was what everyone else was using in the office at the time)
VPNs are good for circumventing censorship and geoblocks. The internet in Russia is severely broken without one right now. But that's it. Those who market a commercial VPN as a privacy tool are severely misrepresenting it, to put it mildly.
In my own opinion, an operating system should not make its own network requests, period. Maybe some update checking when the user intentionally wants it to happen. But modern Windows straight up behaves like malware. I have ARM Windows 11 on a VM. I deleted Windows Defender, Edge, telemetry services and the updater to make it usable. Not all the cutesy group policy registry things, no, I used the recovery mode command prompt that ignores NTFS permissions to delete these files.
VPNs are good for circumventing censorship and geoblocks. The internet in Russia is severely broken without one right now. But that's it. Those who market a commercial VPN as a privacy tool are severely misrepresenting it, to put it mildly.
In my own opinion, an operating system should not make its own network requests, period. Maybe some update checking when the user intentionally wants it to happen. But modern Windows straight up behaves like malware. I have ARM Windows 11 on a VM. I deleted Windows...