Spider Jerusalem

Policy on the local machine - or in the case of home, registry settings. Granted, the settings app can bug out, but if it’s a consistent problem, it’s the first thing to come to mind. If you can search for windows update settings, but clicking on it leads to something else, that would be consistent with such a change.

Wouldn’t hurt to check group policy.

Eeeyup.

“We’re definitely not gonna do it anyway, under some secret agreement.”

If you don’t like or don’t want to see communities that don’t want you to participate, block them and move on. Whether or not they’re right isn’t really important if they’ve made it clear you’re unwelcome, doubly so if you’re going against their own rules. Appeal the others later, if that’s important to you.