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Well I certainly didn't want to offend anyone by using bold letters or Courier New.
Just figured that we read enough wall-of-text throughout a day to become tiresome without the cliffs notes.

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Did someone say you're a "tech guy" maybe a writer, youtube tech star, marketing guy, exec , analyst, investor, the stereotypical old school Linux guru, just guessing , help me out ?

And that browser war is stone age stuff from the previous century. These days, security concerns are paramount so better have everything on auto-update folks, that's the price of entry into the modern Interweb, it being too dangerous to drive on otherwise.
Naw, I'm just one of those "consumer grade" people you've heard about.

All those extras become additional security risks in their own way. Doesn't it become a liability at some point?
I'm sure it's probably still there in the background sending and receiving data.

I wasn't able to undo the changes through the layman menu options.
The was no "rollback to last". Only reset to factory new.
Did they hide this on page 14,754 of the updated manual?
Win10 now disallows many functions such as removing unwanted browsers and other embedded software.

Funny thing was I provided some um choice words in the feedback section and the changes were gone with the next startup.

So when does spyware or adware become acceptable and commonplace?
Is there a definable line?
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