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>> Software used to not hide all the options to "protect me from myself". I agree this is not for for us power users. However - ten years ago I was the free pc support for extended family and distant friends. Constantly removing 5 toolbars from IE and all sorts of adware, spyware, pre-installed crap ... Now it's years ago I had to resolve anything. So at least this "protecting people from themselves" is really working out great.

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Not that long ago I built a gaming computer for my girlfriend's nephew. He asked me to help him with a problem and when I opened up Chrome to google it defaulted to Yahoo search. He said it has been doing that for a while and he didn't know why. Those days are unfortunately not over.

The in-laws' computer had a similar issue, in that it was getting a bunch of shady popups piling up from the bottom right corner (Windows notification popups), where eventually it would cover 1/4 of the screen. Tracked it down to Chrome, and sites that were allowed push notifications. Took a minute to purge the allow list, turn off the prompt to ask for notification permissions (non-technical people tend to click on "ok" or "yes" on most dialog boxes).

But overall much easier than the old days of having to manually remove malware and/or reinstall the OS.

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