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Indeed, I'm regularly dumbfounded that enterprise users put up with this. In a business environment, it would have been unthinkable 20 years ago.

They should be using Windows 11 Enterprise, where those features can be disabled easily with Group Policy.

> implying the outsourced IT dept. or anyone with authority over them gives a fuck anymore

Enterprise licenses have some of this disabled by default. At minimum, a competent IT group can configure these by group policy.