More and more my response to stuff from the Magnificent Seven is to opt out, opt out, opt out. The number of annoyances on Windows keeps going up. Even Annoyances.org seems to have given up.
For me, it’s gotten this way for updates, too. I no longer want your “update” because it is more likely than not going to 1. Make my existing software worse and 2. Come with features I don’t want. So I just won’t upgrade/update.
Software companies can beg and plead and try to force this shit down my throat but I will just say no, no, no. They cannot be trusted and are reaping what they have sown.
Far too common.
It's so ridiculous. They're a vendor FFS. They work for us. Besides, I decide how I use my computer. This BS drives me crazy especially because I'm one of the people that has so work with these guys. Unfortunately one of our top dogs adores microsoft.
At least we decided against deploying copilot.
There's still time...
I feel strongly that thinking applies to everything in life, so I have removed all advertising from my life. Adblock on the web, no TV, no radio, no magazines, no newspapers.
When I genuinely need something I go buy it. Everything else I don’t care about.