OP: why did you feel the need to editorialize “Windows 10 prompted me to register to vote” into “Windows 10 prompted me to vote”?
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#12"We're all living in America"...
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#13Big tech in the US feels responsible - and has been scolded - for the results of the 2016 election, so this is their mea culpa: to help drive out complacent voters.
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#14To check yourself, press the Windows Start Key and enter a single letter to start the search then backspace the letter. The message will be at the bottom of the start menu. If you are on a new install of Windows, the message instead will be Try Edge. Once you clear that message and try again, you'll get the register to vote message.
i got it too after trying this a couple of times. First time i got Covid Information link, 2nd time nothing, 3rd time i got the voting. I am not in US, I have no US keyboard, no US locale so i guess MS just sends these out globally.
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#15Why TF are people using an OS that has ads? Whatever the reason I just dont get it.
...and they are paying for it!
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#16This kind of shit is why I am starting to use Windows Server 2019 as my daily driver workstation OS.
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#17Why TF are people using an OS that has ads? Whatever the reason I just dont get it.
Same reason people use an operating system ecosystem that is hostile to adblockers and is a data collection platform for one of the biggest advertisers: because they don't care.
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#19The start menu integrates Bing web search so I'm presuming it's an advert from that.
It also looks like you need to change a registry key if you want to disable it.
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#20on the one hand, this is indeed a shitty precedent. but on the other hand we have a shitty president and government in general.
> this is indeed a shitty precedent Why?
Would you like to get also a notification for voting in Indonesia,Pakistan or Nigeria?
(Countries with a similar population)