Cookie pop-ups became so prevalent and full of dark patterns that I consider surfing the web highly unpleasant without appropriate technical countermeasures. (e.g. "I don't care about cookies" extension).

Unfortunately I haven't found a blocker for the recurring nag screens from Microsoft asking me to switch from a local account to a Microsoft account to log into Windows.

One is an Operating System you buy and pay for, to run — ostensibly — your computer.

The other is a website you visit for a specific genre of news.

Neowin is just reposting a report from Ghacks

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/02/01/windows-10-now-unlocked-wi...

And Ghacks got their info from a reddit post

Link should have been updated with original source.