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Microsoft will let users uninstall Edge, Bing, and disable ads on Windows 11 as it complies with the Digital Markets Act
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this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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I read elsewhere that this good news only benefits EU users of Windows 11.
VPN go brrrr. Now you're an EU user.
As far as i understand it it doesn't even check your location. It checks the Language & Region in your initial Pc Setup steps. So you have to reset your pc to do that... Until someone figures an alternativ way without resetting your pc i guess.
Why would you need to reset your PC to change your region?
You can just go to region and language settings and do it there.
Microsoft needs to comply even if the laptop was originally bought outside the EU.
I could totally be wrong. That's just something I read in a few news articles. could be a check that only triggers there that changes a few reg keys or whatever. Or it is bullshit and it works post initial setup. 🤷♂️
At least in the past this sort of thing has sometimes made it into Group Policy settings that can be set if you use the Pro version of Windows, but more and more of that is locked down.
A bunch of privacy related settings for Edge can only be set if you're running the Education version of Windows. On Pro/Enterprise the options are available but won't work. Microsoft is determined to make it impossible to run Windows without allowing them to do whatever they want with your data.
They are using the region setting to drive this, so it won’t be GPO enabled in a way that makes sense to do outside of the EU.