• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    First steps of windows install:

    1. No to everything for data monitoring
    2. Google or Opera default browser
    3. Disable or ignore all copilot icons
    4. Unstick all user folders from OneDrive
    5. TranslucentTB
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      3 days ago

      All your points are a bit questionable:

      1. Sure, you should click no to almost everything Microsofts asks anywhere, but that hardly helps. Use privacy tools like O&O Shut Up to actually disable spy stuff.
      2. God no. Vivaldi is nice if you must have Chromium (this is made by the guys who used to build Opera, before it was sold to shady new owners), otherwise Firefox.
      3. See point 1.
      4. Just uninstall the damn thing, or some tools of point 1 might do this for you.
      5. If you must, sure.

      Using Enterprise version of Windows is the best option, it already has most of the malicious stuff left out.

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      google as default browser

      You sweet summer child, Google is as bad if not even worse than Microsoft. Chrome is no longer the browser the memes that glazed it used to depict it as.