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Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users(www.ghacks.net)

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Fish [Indiana]@midwest.social
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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

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Fish [Indiana]@midwest.social
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No, it was included when I bought my laptop.

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Lilac_miku@ani.social
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you did actually pay for it as you can get a refund for windows that comes preinstalled on computers

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