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The author is upset that Edge is suggesting an alternative solely based on price.
Does it seem crazy to anyone else that they wrote a paragraph about that but completely ignored that the browser is watching, recording, and disseminating everything they do?
I installed that W10Privacy program on my Windows machine that has been recommended by https://privacytools.io and it removed Edge and Cortana for me ;D
Can you link that for me please? I was unable to find it on the site.
Seems to me a scam, not from MS. Anyway look in the Windows settings in Notification, if they are activated and for what. But in all case do a scan with AdwCleanerhttps://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner, maybe you have caught an hijacker in your browser anywhere.. MS don't use pop up advertisings, ocasional notifications are only from the task bar. Use an adblocker in your browser to avoid this, best combination is uBlock Origin and Trace., both are the best in their protection (uBO ad/tracking/malware blocking and Trace header and fingerprint spoofing, phising protect) and both OpenSource.
It's nice to see others are using Trace addon as well :)
I also use Site Bleacher extension, highly recommended. It removes automatically all data from visited webs (cookies, local storages, IndexedDBs, service workers, cache storages, filesystems and webSQLs), except from the whitelisted ones.
I use for that Cookie Remover extension and it can functions the same, only its' name is other
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