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z3c0 on March 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware upd...

A couple days ago, I was thrown by one of my Windows devices pitching an ad for a video game to me in the notifications. I immediately disabled the related setting, which was of course enabled by default. Every device you buy is rigged by default to encourage you to buy more things.

albert_e on March 15, 2025 [–]

You _thought_ You disabled that setting forever.

It only takes a routine Windows Update to bring those setting back to helpful defaults.

And those updates are helpfully set to download and install by default.

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