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Logitech does this too.

Just plug in a mouse - Windows fetches the driver package and, voila, you are a proud owner of LogiLDA.dll that will pester you with random marketing bullshit until forcibly removed from the system.

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MS explicitly allows this; to spam you regarding a more featured driver when the one from WU is installed.

I think the problem is still Logitech doing this, not MS allowing it. Just because something is allowed it doesn't mean you have to do it.

MS doesn't have any self respect and any respect for its users. Luckily there is Apple which side with the user in these kind of matters.

Ah, yeah Apple and mice. The operating system where the shoulder buttons of my old but perfectly fine Logitech MX518 don't work and I have to jump through hoops to get them to simply make them take me back in a browser. Truly a masterpiece of engineering. /s

Apple's drivers for basic input devices are extremely bad. I couldn't believe it when I was first using a Mac. You need vendor drivers for everything.

Luckily another part of the traditional Apple ecosystem are well engineered community generated extensions to cover for Apple's lack of advanced options for some functionality:

https://sensible-side-buttons.archagon.net/

Oh yeah, Apple is to be faulted for many things, including monopolistic behaviour, poor support for "alternative" ways of using their devices etc. But at least they don't ship an OS with ads, data tracking and other shenanigans like MS does. MS in the past never held their products to a high standard of quality. Apple's success forced them to consider that aspect, but they are still far away from being able to compete on that front.

hmm i have it on system, but haven seen any adds. Where do they pop up ?

At logon, via HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.

You can switch it off with SysInternal's Autoruns [1] ... along with all other stuff that Autoruns will dig up.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...

I've had only Logitech keyboards and mice on my main desktops for over 2 decades, on Windows, with SetPoint installed, and never once have I ever seen an ad pop up from their software.

I have this but never saw an ad. Where are the ads?

In a dedicated application popup window in the bottom right corner of the main display.

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