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Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish •
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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users

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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users

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    I was finally able to get rid of the ads in Windows. I’m sure that it doesn’t block everything, but editing the ‘hosts’ file helps. At least I don’t see any ads in Windows anymore. Here is an simple tutorial that I found on how to do so:

    youtu.be/IJr2DcffquI

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      • Fish [Indiana]
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        No, it was included when I bought my laptop.

        • @Lilac_miku@ani.social
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          you did actually pay for it as you can get a refund for windows that comes preinstalled on computers

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            Where can you do such a thing? Microsoft definitely isn’t doing it, at least in the US. Can’t speak on if the EU mandates such a thing by law.

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