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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users (www.ghacks.net)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I was finally able to get rid of the ads in Windows. I'm sure that it doesn't block everything, but editing the 'hosts' file helps. At least I don't see any ads in Windows anymore. Here is an simple tutorial that I found on how to do so:

youtu.be/IJr2DcffquI