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It has reappeared on mine after mandatory windows updates which is frustrating and also it looks like it will be arriving on my TV soon too without the option to remove it.

> https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/tv-providers/...

So it's not a stretch to assume they will continue to force it in their OS.

Microsoft will remove something after an outcry and then will later get it back with no option to remove. This happens all the time. People have no attention spans these day as they move to the new outrage hashtag of the day, so this works.

Why should anyone have to take action against it? Good products don't need to be forced upon users, an obnoxious ad in one of the dozen places Windows shows advertising would have sufficed. People even willingly fork over cash for ChatGPT and Claude and those don't even have OS ad placements or forced installs.

For now