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submitted 6 months ago by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/microsoft-now-says-your-pc-is-in-need-of-repair-if-youre-not-using-bing-with-edge

They are not wrong.

To mend your machine:

  1. Ditch Windows
  2. Install Plasma
  3. Your computer is ready.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

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[-] epat@lemmy.world -1 points 6 months ago

Yes, it's not a great security practice, and it probably should work more like "we've noticed you have randomly changed your search engine from google/ddg/bing/whatever to this 'random search engine no-one heard about'' instead of blindly reverting to edge and bing.

It seems to be a tool for tech illiterates. A power user will know how to avoid malware, and remove it if they catch it.

They should do a much better job than that, but helping people that don't know what they're doing is not itself a bad thing.

this post was submitted on 20 May 2024
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