Microsoft is trying to restore Bing as the default search engine on users’ browsers by spinning it as a “repair” through a utility app called PC Manager.
PC Manager is designed to boost a Windows PC’s performance by freeing up memory and eliminating unused apps and files. It offers “Health check” and “Repair tips” buttons, which users can click on to see the recommended actions.
However, Windows Latest noticed the app pushing a curious recommendation: Both Repair tips and Health check nudge you to restore Bing as the default search engine on the Edge browser.
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You know how many times I’ve had to remove a spyware/adware browser, extensions, and homepage from a family members computer? Too many.
This is a product you pay for and it doesn’t respect your choices…
Probably closer to renting the OS lol
PC Manager sounds exactly like one of those garbageware “PC tune up” apps I used to clean off of customer computers back when I worked at a repair shop. Right down to changing your homepage/search engine. But at least the other guys would give you a snazzy coupon toolbar or three.
Microsoft has fallen quite far from the heydays of TweakUI.
I’m a little surprised they let you change it
About once a month, Edge pops up a message telling me that the search engine was “accidentally” changed from Bing to whatever I chose (e.g. DuckDuckGo). It leaves me no option but to restore Bing, and then manually change it back to what I wanted. If Edge weren’t preinstalled I’d get rid of it, but I don’t need two Chromium browsers.
It’s weird that CCleaner is trash but it’s still better than what MS suggests.
Bleachbit is the open source, non trash “replacement” for CCleaner
"If it’s good enough for Hillary it’s good enough for me! "
Thanks.
Thanks
When I am studying at university, a dude actually buy CCleaner. I wonder how he got scammed.
The effect of such tools depends on how neglected the system is. Probably he had A LOT to clean, so after a regular cleaning routine he was amazed by how everything is fast now.
On Windows, I could’ve probably bought it too for having startup+plugins+programs+cache in one window, since in later versions of Windows it’s too inconvinient.
So tired of companies telling me they know what I want more than I do. It’s all over the place in big ways like this and smaller annoyance ways too. My work mac just did a security update and it decided to change my desktop background
Everything that isn’t Free Software will become abusive eventually. It boils down to the simple fact that you can only trust your property, that you control.
They went full malware.
Maybe this will sound unrelated but have you seen a PC infected with tons of malware?
The web browsers tend to be the most affected apps by malware and if the user doesn’t want to reinstall, forcing the web browser to change the default search engine helps a lot, because it is literally impossible to do that manually when the PC is full of shit.
Other than that, yeah, Microsoft doing anti-consumer things, as always.
I never thought I would say this but Microsoft may be doing you a favor there.
Why’s that?
Seems like we get new windows enshittification news every week now. They are hard at work, huh?
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You know, this is a useful tool when you’re clearing a malware infection. Everyone seems to be assuming this is fully automatic, but it requires you to accept the change before it commits.
Of course, since everyone here is rabidly anti-Microsoft, anything MS does is automatically the worst thing in existance.
They are saying that you need to use there product to have a healthy PC. How on Earth is a search engine related at all to PC health. People are not idiots.
