Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal
Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal
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Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal
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It is worth mentioning that changes you made to the IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json file won't have effect in stable versions of Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft has to roll out this new capability to the stable branch in March 2024.
It’s annoying that this is all the way at the bottom of the article. Good to know I can do all this, glad I didn’t attempt to change any of this now, because it’s pointless until these updates hit stable
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came here to complain about this. BTW, found a more complicated way to remove edge on Tom's. makes linux howtos look preschool
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You know, if you use Linux you don't have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?
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Some of you sound like the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet lifestyle.
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That's because like vegans, there is a moral imperative that most ignore or don't care about, we have a genuine emotional attachment to foss, and because you are ignorant of the topic, you don't care to listen.
What he said is harmless, true, and there is a moral imperative to say it, and ontop of that it isn't like a diet, it's better software that respects you, doesn't spy on you, and for free and the only downside is a 15 minute install process (and the use of a flash drive). Why do you care enough to fight that?
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the annoying stereotype of vegans pushing their diet
Also, vegans actually do something good for the planet instead of just choosing a different OS for their PC. So, maybe acknowledge that to your neighborly vegan next time, instead of telling them a story about how you once met someone who was really pushy about veganism.
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Wouldn't it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?
The whole point of computers, as far as I can tell, is to be that abusive relationship we never could perfect with humans. Linux is no exception, it's just more passive-aggressive and better with gaslighting.
"You see, if only you'd installed this dependency, which I showed you so clearly in the error logs all along - and I categorised them so nicely - but you never like to look there, do you? - I mean, I understand, and that's why I mentioned it - not too strongly, because I didn't want to upset you more - in the terminal output..."
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Most Linux developers don't include anti-features on purpose, but Windows developers do.
I think dependencies have gotten simpler on Linux with flatpak. The fact that the command-line is still sometimes needed on Linux is just a fact of life. Nobody is forcing users to use it out of any sort of passive-aggressive distain for users, but just that it takes less time out of volunteer developers' schedules to buold command-line tools.
I think one thing to note in the CLI-GUI debate though is that Windows pushed hard against CLI interfaces from day 1. Even starting with Windows 3, there were a lot of things you couldn't do with CLI easily, while Unix has always had full CLI support. Users being unfamiliar with CLI interfaces is a symptom of Windows dominance.
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Package managers have become so much better with dependencies. It's been a while since I've encountered an issue, with yay it very usually works out of the box.
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There's a difference between feeling abused from intentional mistreatment and then there's frustration from miscommunication or inadequacy from either partner.
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In that same Linux I had to rack my brain and still failed to launch the game I want.
You mean like that relationship?
Sure Linux has its own pros, but not what I need.
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I used to think the same and sure there are still definitely games that won't work, but gaming on Linux has come a loooong way. And with the recent bullshit that Microsoft is pulling with Windows 10 and especially 11 I just couldn't take it anymore.
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Are you using Steam? What game isn't compatible with Linux and/or requires significant user effort to run?
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Skill issue
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Linux not being able to launch a game (that probably was not made for it) is not a relationship issue but a technical one.
Even if it is possible to run the game but you need to hack around your distro's configurations, you can be certain the default configuration was not made with the specific intent of preventing you from running the game.
In the Windows case you are not hacking around with the json file to solve a technical issue.
Windows is not misconfigured, it's Microsoft's explicit decision to prevent you from removing some of it's software even if it's forced by law to do so for other people.
It's ok if you don't mind Microsoft's behavior or you just find Linux's technical issues more important in choosing an OS. But the issues are not similar neither equivalent.
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Or maybe the one that I had to reinstall every other month because it kept failing to boot (probably because I broke something because I had no clue what I was doing and trying to get stuff working).
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Listen, I probably one of the most hardcore linux propagandists out there, which spells disaster when I confess I'm anything but a tech guru, but even I am aware some people are too off the deep end to swim back and move to another OS.
Windows is locked in a dominant position and regardless how bad their solutions are in fact, not enough tech/privacy aware high level managers exist to push windows off the corporate shelf.
The alternative is to spread Linux and FOSS to kids and incentivize the use and exploring of technology because it is simply fun to do it, not shotgun proseletize and hope something sticks.
Your intention is good but the method, which I often use as well, needs a lot of refining.
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And if you use Linux you have to jump through hoops to install (non-steam) games. I know, just yesterday I had to search a working tutorial for installing Fall Guys.
BTW for anyone needing help in the future, this worked: https://youtu.be/X41PlQNx0vk
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Anyone who makes a stand to defend Linux as a gaming platform over Windows is righteously impractical at best, and a principled idiot at worst. It’s simply not there yet.
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This isn't much of a hoop, you install wine and run the installer with it, furthermore, I'd rather deal with the kind of hoop that isn't actively harming you intentionally any day.
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As a user who bought FG on steam, I had ZERO issues whatsoever getting this to run on my Walmart laptop. This is an Epic issue. Fuck Epic. Ran Fall Guys into the ground before laying off basically all of its creative team. It’s just a grind now…
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/X41PlQNx0vk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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It's not Linux or Windows. For example Gaming and everyday Tasks I use Windows because Games I play run much better on Windows and I like to use it more. But for things like programming I will use Linux. I'm just beginning learning to code but I already made the painful experience of trying to get compiler, debugger etc. running on windows.
Linux and Windows are Tools. You can't use a Hammer for every Taks, sometimes you need a Screwdriver.
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Yeah, let me know when Revit, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, OpenRoads Designer are operable and supported on Linux.
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Ableton Live and plugins don't work on Linux, and I'd rather run it on my own build, so I have to use Windows. That's also the machine I game on. Everything else is Debian.
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You could try Bitwig. I have a friend that prefers it over Ableton even on Windows. And Windows-only VSTs work with Yabridge
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Yes, should escape from using Windows if can. But this is just news, why automatically there must be a comment like that?
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GIVE IT TO ME YESTERDAY
Christmas came early this year
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Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables you to dock the fucking taskbar to the side of your screen.
I'm just a simple girl with simple desires.
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At this point it's literally just easier to use any Linux distro
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Suuure, let me know when Revit, Civil 3D, ArcGIS, OpenRoads Designer are operable and supported on Linux.
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I knoooooooow. I know arcgis is working on it at least. I'm a geologist, a ton of our geospatial programs require windows.
But I'm about ready to experiment with a dual joot for my home set up! I really never need windows for that anymore
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The future is now old man.
Looks like the other three aren't natively supported though.
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I just installed Ubuntu (the more mainstream ofnlinux distros) to replace my windows OS. I was greeted by a cryptic error. After a quick search for some tecno bable, i had to start on safe mode and install the video drivers.
Do you think a "regular user" would be able to do this?
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I'm amazed it took to the second comment to mention Linux.
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These systems are critical to serving ads/propaganda. This is a dark day for the free world
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This really should be on for everyone, not just when it detects you're in the EU.
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Seems like it would be elementary to add your country code to the list of regions.
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It took me embarrassingly long to figure out how to read the title correctly. Like, you need a json file to enable Edge and Bing??
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No, you need a JSON file if you're not in the EU but still want to be able to disable the integrated crap
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Sweet, even less garbage to clutter up the ol gaming rig.
Maybe one day game devs will enable anticheat on Linux so I can finally uninstall the shit OS.
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Maybe one day game devs will enable anticheat on Linux so I can finally uninstall the shit OS.
EasyAntiCheat is already there.
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I think whatever Valorant has is the main issue. Back 4 Blood also doesn’t work for some reason, nor does it work in a Windows VM.
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IntregratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json
{ "$schema": "schemas/IntegratedServices RegionPolicySet.Schema.1.0.0.json", "version": "1.0", "policies": [ { "$comment": "Edge is uninstallable.", "defaultState": "disabled", "guid": "{1bca278a-5d11-4acf-ad2f-f9ab6d7f93a6}", "conditions": { "region": { "enabled":["AT", "BE", "BG", "CH", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DK", "EE", "ES", "FI", "FR", "GP", "GR", "HR", "HU", "IE", "IS", "IT", "LI", "LT", "LU", "LV", "MT", "MQ", "NL", "NO", "PL", "PT", "RE", "RO", "SE", "SI", "SK", "YT"]} } }, { "$comment": "User can disable web search.", "guid": "{6002ce31-b807-4f82-820c-2b92e716ab76}", "defaultState": "disabled", "conditions": { "region": { "enabled": ["AT", "BE", "BG", "CH", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DK", "EE", "ES", "FI", "FR", "GF", "GP", "GR", "HR", "HU", "IE", "IS", "IT", "LI", "LT", "LU", "LV", "MT", "MQ", "NL", "NO", "PL", "PT", "RE" "RO", "SE", "SI", "SK", "YT"] } } -
Youre the fuckin goat
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Edge is required for web search
By disabling this, does it mean I'll be able to set Firefox as the default browser to open when doing a web search from the start menu?
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I use MSEdgeRedirect to redirect both the search engine and the browser used by start menu searches.
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None of these settings should be controlled by Microsoft. It's my computer, Satya.
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Microsoft and Apple pervasively install thier entire platform in their Operating Systems so you can't just have what you need to have on one of their computers, you have the buy the whole platform.
The Linux Eco-system is valued at $100 Billion, has nearly 40 million LoC, and is now Global Mega-Corp Consortium Funded. Link to Linux Foundation Financial Report 2022, "Read The Report", Page 13.
Top Sponsors:
- Microsoft
- Meta
- Intel
- Oracle
- Tencent
- Huawei
- Fujitsu
- Hitachi
- Ericsson
- Samsung
- NEC
- Qualcomm
- VMWare (Now Broadcom)
Notable Second Tier Sponsors:
- Blackrock
- WeBank (Facial Recognition only Chinese Bank)
- Alibaba Cloud
Notable Third Tier Sponsors:
- Apple
If we are headed for a global AI monolith or Bladerunner type future, it will surely run on Linux! It's everywhere and Linux will never again be steered by the community.
Instead use and help make successful any Indie Operating System like Haiku, Aero, or Minix3 instead of literally working as the tinniest cog ever for a Global Mega-Corp Consortium.
You can also just use GhostBSD which is a superb Desktop BSD experience based off of stable FreeBSD that installs and works like Mint. Control your own kernel and everything about your BSD with NetBSD. Now is a great time to get into BSD with NetBSD 10 RC1. Learn it now and you'll have an OS that when released does only what you want it to do.
Finally there is the fastest BSD, Dragonfly. I made a Dragonfly BSD setup script that will turn a $250 2019 Thinkpad T495 into a lightning fast programmer workstation that does only what you want it to, and hardened. It never even makes one call out to the internet unless you typed the command in or allowed it beforehand.
If you insist on using Linux, then use a distro with an independent kernel that let's them know you would not like the Linux kernel which has been badly managed by the Dictator Linus, globally taken over.
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What exactly are you criticizing about linux? That it got (too) successful? That it is run in its current form by Linus Torvalds at the top as a sort of benevolent dictator? That it is taking money from sponsors?
Genuinely curious, this is a first time I've seen such criticism. More often I see linux people in endless flamewars about DEs, wayland vs X, package managers or whatever they feel strongly about and I'm not interested in those.
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Linux is a kernel. The distribution is what actually matters.
Plus, I am not a fan of deciding whether to use something based on who funds them.
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You have it backwards. The kernel is Linux. A distribution is added to the kernel. The kernel is what matters, the distribution is consequent and relies on the kernel which dictates all it's functions. The distribution is flavor on top of foundation. 101.
All investment of time, money, resources, everything, should be ethical choices, ethical investing. Deciding to ignore who funds what makes you vulnerable to accept tainted diamonds, Cartel funded dispensaries, restaurants, and Policians, etc, etc. You should be wary of who you make rich, who you compensate, who you give your money to.
Ignorance of money and the resources it drives that determine the fate of people everywhere is simply ignorance and your viewpoint should not be rewarded.
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I'm honestly surprised that I'm going to say this, as I have not used this term and over a decade, but there's a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) going on in the comments on this topic, trying to shape a certain narrative.
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The way Windows buil-in text editor colors and formats JSON files in 2023...
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I refuse to believe anyone ever opens microsoft notepad on purpose.
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Depending on the system you're on it can be all you have. It's like Microsoft's vi, just so much worse
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I use it as a temporary text storage since my browser search bar copy and paste stopped working
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I disagree that that’s much of a problem. Notepad’s just a low footprint plaintext editor, period. It’s good enough for what it does. If you want something more advanced (with more footprint and start time), just use I never saw anyone hating on echo and cat…
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Does this work for non EU?
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That seems like standard options why would they be disabled?
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Honest to god, EU regulators feel like the last bastion of sanity left.
Until they ban encryption...
Like anything else, some times right, some times wrong.
This is a great "right" moment.
I dread the next "wrong" one.
Thanks Jason
Press X to JSON.
There is an old video of people larping in a public park. One guy is pulling bean bags out of a little pouch on his side and throwing them at the person he is battling. With each throw he screams "lightning bolt!!!". Your username reads like three of his lightning bolt attacks.