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Third-party program blocks integrated Windows 11 advertising | Users will go to extreme lengths to negate Microsoft's latest "improvements" for Windows

A Windows "debloat" application previously known as Bloatynosy has been rebranded as Winpilot. It now features a completely new section aimed at removing all "promotions" and advertising...

According to the app's developer, Winpilot is the "manic cousin" of Microsoft Copilot and was originally designed as a hybrid web/offline application to simplify the removal of all AI features in Windows. After intensifying advertising efforts and frustrating a significant portion of Windows power users, Microsoft has recently been accused of intentionally making the OS worse. A former Microsoft developer described the performance of the Windows 11 Start Menu as " comically bad," even on a high-powered machine equipped with a Core i9 CPU and 128 GB of RAM.

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