The new Windows update made me think I'd installed malware
Comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39809478 )
As we've been saying since 1995: #Microsoft Windows IS malware.
Microsoft believes that they own and have the right to control the computer, and not you, which is why Microsoft Windows 10 & 11 "call home" even when you explicitly ask it not to. It also installs spps and components behind your back, even outside of actual Windows updates being applied.
Microsoft has had the Google & Facebook mindset a decade before both.
#tech #consumer
I expect it from Windows and only use Windows because I have to because my work program only runs on Windows. I am having the same problem with my Android phone. I've told it not to do automatic updates, but it weekly downloads apps that I don't want and have never used.
I hate to buy a new phone right now because my current phone is less than a year old, but I am seriously considering getting a degoogled phone. I have had it with Android (I try to avoid Google, but with phones we have Android and Apple and both are terrible, so I use the one I am more comfortable with and do as much as is possible to limit data collection).
