@@stremixx7176 Don't (necessarily) think so. It's more so that US government has a lot of benefit from US business both international and national with such questionable companies. And 60's spy agency would have nuked a small country for spy and manipulation tools that people freely sign up for.
The reason why it should not go against freedom of market and why the EU Enforcing it on Apple is bullshit is because Apple holds no such monopoly. There’s only one iPhone you can buy, there’s only one brand using iOS. Apple should have the right to control what Their devices do. Just like how for example Sony has the right to control what the PlayStation plays, or how Nintendo decides what the Switch plays. It baffles me that the EU Actually forced Apple to allow other app stores because it only compromises the security i want in my phone.
@@GT86_S5MK Yes and to strengthen my own point, lets look at Android. there it makes sense that it allows full on sideloading, because there google Does have a monopoly, where Every phone manufacturer HAS to get android, or else the phone sells horribly. with Apple as the sole exception. There google certainly Would be a gatekeeper if they only allowed apps from the google store. but because Apple is simply in the same situation as Nintendo, or Sony. they only have their own product which has its own OS, they should have the right to decide what happens on their device.
@@JimV. "Apple should have the right to control what Their devices do". No that is up to the customer. As soon as you buy a telephone that telephone is yours and not from Apple.
@@JimV. Phone manufacturers don't have to use android, they just have to develop an operating system that can actually compete, which would cost a ton of money with no upside. Most people buy phones for features; you can't launch a phone with less features than your competitors and expect people to buy it.
yea but also censors everything... like Steam in Germany is awful cuz most games are hidden away cuz Steam has no legit true Age verification... so many nice games that are brutal, gory and or show a bit more skin... are just right out banned. While yes sometimes they make good changes for normal users... Gamers get shafted every time
I also think it's stupid to hide the means to disable such a feature behind the registry. You have to go out of your way to add that stupid dword yourself just to have a slightly better functioning search bar without the bing crap.
@@LMB222 Well, nothing that BENEFITS the tech industry, granted. As much as I criticise Apple, they did show that ARM architecture can pull its weight in desktop environments, and that does better the industry. Meanwhile, Microsoft have yet to make their own bloody operating system run well on x86 for more than 2 years. But the EU seem to be the real innovator. Or at least making sure everyone plays fair.
@@mitchib1440 EU is making sure that no U.S. spying happens in EU, as these tech giants are U.S. and it's a known fact that they (except Apple), have backdoors opened for CIA, and obviously nobody likes it besides U.S. Regarding Apple, the "making sure everyone plays fair", it is more about stopping Apple's stupid schemes of monopolizing market or creating stuff where consumer has to constantly buy something in order for the product to work which should work out of the box and not with additional purchases. Thanks to these forced regulations they have to stop their stupidity. And with Microsoft it's more about being fair and not trying to steal.
But for every 1 good thing they do like this they fuck the dog so badly on other things that they redefine rape per se Like the asinine immigration rules they try to force on members regardless of internal laws Ireland is a perfect example
How does it suck though? It cracks on big tech, doesn't have blue vs green bubble war, doesn't require you to own a car to be able to live. and overall is pretty based Forgot mention the tipping culture, lol
Because having root access is a huge vulnerability that hackers/viruses can exploit too. And you don't want your average user to be able to, let's say, delete the windows folder
@@timecornwhy not? Why not have an average user be able to delete or break something? Because they're too stupid? I think it should be up to the user to decide. And root access does not equal insecure root access, you just have to do it well.
EU regulations being based once again. Also remember, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought you worldwide Steam refunds as well for much the same reasons in that it was easier to implement a thing globally than it is to have an exclusive EU or Australian market thing. Also my Onedrive account is based in Ireland for it to be covered under GDPR lol.
@@mr2octavio they won’t as most of their customers are enterprise. They will not go into the legal nightmare that is that. Not to mention all this will do is increase non enterprise piracy and by law, they still have to patch pirated copies of Windows so there is no incentive to do what you think they would do
@@seakwenzAustralian law is very simplistic.. companies have to do what a reasonable consumer expects.... Here's the problem... You don't know what that is until a judge rules on it. So if someone takes the effort to establish that ( usually the government against big multinationals ), then it's usually a good decision.
The EU regulators are using their power to give us what we all want the tech companies to do and I'm here for it. The market is supposed to create better products for the consumer but that didn't work in tech, so I'm glad the EU is stepping in and making sure that the market can do its job.
This actually happened back in 2009! The EU confronted MS about the presence of Internet Explorer in Windows 7 as an unremovable and default web browser option, and MS made a big show about shipping an EU version that didn't have IE unless you opted in to have it. However, they ended up just shipping the exact same Windows 7 that the rest of the world got. They got fined a bunch of euros and ultimately didn't care. If they just get fined again, I'm sure they still won't care.
Steam gets hit by the EU all the time, and fighting the EU actually costs less than changing their business practices lol and besides, I'm not sure we should be happy about EU acting as a regulator to US-based multinationals and industry leaders, even if we are talking about _Microsoft._ I don't think that's a standard we want to become more normalized? Wouldn't it be bad for tech, and bad for consumers in the US in the long run?
@@tictacterminatorI doubt you understand what's going on. A minimum fine in the EU is either 10% of a companies yearly revenue or a few million euros - whichever is larger. Given that companies can be hit with multiple of these fines per lawsuit it can mean bankruptcy for even the largest companies.
IIRC, they started offering the N-suffixed editions for the same or similar reasons. But having no preinstalled media codecs made those unusable so everyone just installs the regular non-compliant versions.
I mean, designing an operating system that makes you miss the last version of it EVERY SINGLE TIME is no small feat. It takes a special level of disgust, hatred, and disregard for your user base that has only been matched by the gaming industry. Cheers, Microsoft, you'll always be trash in my book.
Windows for Workgroups, Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7 have been the only end user Windows OS products which I found desirable upgrades from the previous version. Windows 10/11 amounted to being forced due to software not supporting Windows 7.
[00:00]🖥 Changes in Microsoft Windows due to EU regulations - The EU has compelled Microsoft to allow uninstallation of default apps in Windows. - Changes in the layout of Windows, including clearer labels and customization options. - Choice for EU users to sync or not sync Windows with a Microsoft account. [01:12] 🛠 Changes in Windows layout and customization - Clearer labels on system components to differentiate from external elements. - New customization options for feeds and web search within applications. - Potential benefits for app developers on the Windows platform. [02:33] 🌍 Options for Microsoft account data in the EU - EU users will have the choice not to sync Windows with a Microsoft account. - Previous issues with the imposition of Microsoft accounts in Windows 10. - Streamlining setup for clients without requiring a Microsoft account. [04:38] 🔄 Default app settings in Windows - Improvements in default app settings in Windows. - Persistence of Microsoft Edge in certain instances despite changing the default settings. - Significant updates for European users, although questions arise about their global reach. [06:01] 🔒 Possibility to extend EU benefits outside of Europe - Potential way to leverage privacy and user benefits outside the EU. - Potential challenges in location detection to extend changes beyond Europe. - Perspectives on the applicability of these improvements beyond the EU borders.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive write up of all the changes. May the Ancient gods bless you with luck and reward you accordingly (haha just a joke). But i wish you a nice weekend my dude
Regarding the Apple GPS thing for only allowing side-loading in the EU, well, it'll be interesting to see how long that lasts. Because I suspect the EU isn't going to just let that fly. Their citizens travel outside the EU after all, and if they bought their phone in the EU and they're an EU citizen, that law probably still applies.
Apple uses SIM cards to activate certain geographic restrictions (irrc with the Japanese law on forcing shutter sound on) I don’t see why they can’t do that with side loading, plus why should Apple have to comply when someone is another jurisdiction?
@@jjaurrgui Because the EU can force Apple to include those terms in their contracts/licenses with EU citizen customers if they want to have those contracts in the first place. And once those terms are in the contracts/licenses, _not_ complying would be breach of contract no matter where in the world it happened.
The regulations apply to devices and software that is operated and sold within the european economic area. It's not attached to citizenship. Much like when an EU citizen travels to, say the US, that citizen is subject to the laws of the US, not the laws of the country of origin, the regulations don't follow that person either over the borders.
@@MrEshah That still depends on how the law is written. If I sign a contract with you to rent a widget, and then I stop paying you but keep the widget, I'm in breach of contract whether I don't pay you while staying in the city where we signed the rental agreement, or if I take the widget to Belize and don't pay you there. I'm sure it's illegal to stop paying rental fees in Belize too, but even if it weren't, if I came back to wherever we signed that rental agreement, I would still have violated the agreement. I'd still have to pay late fees. The EU could pass a law that requires Apple to include terms in their license agreements, which are a contract with the end user, that say they'll allow side-loading regardless of where that end user goes. At that point it doesn't matter where the EU citizen in question goes, since there's now a contract with Apple stating that Apple will allow them to side-load apps no matter where they go. The EU doesn't have jurisdiction in, say, Chile, but if an EU citizen whose contract with Apple has those terms in it goes to Chile and can't side-load apps, Apple would still be in breach of contract. At that point Apple will have to pay their fines the next time they're in the EU... Except they're _already_ in the EU, because they're still doing business there. So they have to pay their fines for the breach of contract. If they don't want to pay the fines, they have to leave the EU, which they don't want to do.
@@Cantodorum The kilometre is a thousand metres. 1 metre is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299.792.458 of a second. Or roughly 1.0936 yards.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 When they are trying to ban end-to-end encryption, slowly get rid of cash and digitalize the euro and also ban the sale of combustion energy cars
Very good news and hopefully it comes to 10 as well! I've had to do so many tweaks and tricks to debloat the system of junk and telemetry (that still isn't all clear...) and yet they still find new ways to install it back on or push a Microsoft account on me (Luckily I never got 11 where they completely force it). It's such a pain and degrades the entire OS. Not to mention sucks up unnecessary space you didn't want to use.
For real. I am so sick and tired of it asking me to "finish setting up my device" AKA "please please please give us your data and email and sign in and firstborn pleeeeeeease"
@@ivosimons3687 Yes by first go into recovery mode or command prompt something, typing commands to flag it as dev testing, and then do all that stuff. But what's next? You gonna have to reverse engineer and hack it? You can get around all limitations in one way or another. Like saying "Oh you can get around iPhones restrictions by jailbreaking" yea it's still not very good. The point is you shouldn't have to do these dumb hacks and stuff to do normal things. Just like we shouldn't have to encrypt, we should be able to send text messages without worrying about companies or states reading them. Yes you can get around it with encryption, and everyone should encrypt regardless, but it is still a bad thing that it is accepted and normalised for companies and states to read through all our messages. In China you can get around all of their restrictions as well. Still no excuse or place I want to be in.
Something important to remember is that windows is very normie, business, and OEM focused, a few hackermen breaking the region locks isn’t a massive concern of Microsoft because they’re not the primary customer base and won’t be costing them enough money to make them want to stop it.
it's fascinating to compare how the hackermen-fixing-windows pipeline works in Russia compared to EU/USA. when our hackermen fix windows, then every Russian's windows is fixed, because we all pirate it from the same websites (why pay for the OS? especially if the retail version is crappy as hell). however, there is a downside to it: while our installations may lack most of the Microsoft telemetry, normies tend to install our own telemetry on top of it, in forms of Yandex, VKontakte, etc (which, while basing in Russia, are no better). not counting all the other "custom builds" with this stuff installed by default Microsoft has already left Russia, but I don't think it cost them any significant amount of money to do so because of the piracy.
@@rudzik8164 even if most regular users hack it, you cant have hacked software in commerce, education or government. I work at a University, we tried all types of Linux, but the regular user rejects anything that is not windows. Also, I noticed a lot of people in the US and EU buy software, even if a hacked version is two clicks away... I have no idea why.
I would love to see this with Android. I hate all of these bloted apps and not being able to uninstall Netflix and more. EDIT: I want to clarify that I have an S20 (Samsung) and I cannot choose it because my parents bought it for me and as long as it works, I will use it. I don't like wasting tech or money in my wallet. I am an apprentice, so I don't have a lot.
It's a step in the right direction but I'm worried about all of the telemetry Windows is still collecting. I can live with bloat but Windows collecting my activity against my will is what really grinds my gears.
The internet was developed in part by DARPA (Arpanet), so one could argue, without being able to see what tech DARPA has, you will never be safe on the internet regardless if you think you are the second coming of Neo.
This is a really refreshing channel! There's something about the videos that feels like 2012 TH-cam, in a good way. The video isn't dragged out, and there's a strong focus on keeping the content crisp instead of over-stylising with animations/ studio design. Plus big tech channels don't cover workarounds to official software, I've felt a big lack of this sort of content in the past few years. Subbed.
Margrethe Vestager are the EU commissionaire that are behind the results against the tech firms. A Microsoft based computer are today basically a client in a server/client relationship. VERY hard to understand why not one have come up with a store purchasable product based on modules coming from an entirely "from scratch" programming based on a promise not to be monitored commercially after purchase. Clearly the market for this have existed for decades and more should ask themselves why not one tech millionaire have decided to do so when Microsoft in last quarter announced an earning´s of 56,5 billion Dollars! Something/someone must tell them it would not be healthy for them to do so. Not only do we live in a technological "1984" version of reality online in relation to the tech companies and the intelligence services but people on top decides to pay for clocks, cars, phones etc that both monitors them 24/7 in real time but on top monetises that information through data brokers!
95% of the shit the EU does is based, it's just that those remaining 5% is what everyone is always talking about so many people have this skewed view that the EU is mostly bad.
Under new EU law (the DMA) companies have to offer the same service to all EU citizens no matter where they're currently geographically located (to prevent discrimination), so I don't see how Microsoft can geo-lock this without asking for ID or something. Remember there are huge parts of the EU in South America (French Guyana), the Caribbean and even Pacific Ocean due to historical colonial ties. These are internal parts of EU countries like the Netherlands and France, not colonies or associated countries.
As someone who personally took steps to set up Windows to run in a VM with hardware passthrough and without TPM, Secure Boot, Edge, etc. I see this as an absolute win and something that should have never been allowed here in the US.
Solution is very simple Just make You have to change with donation To political campaigns. United States System of "donation" In my country im UE is Called bribes United States legal system: $1 million donation of One individual. This is not an influence to the political system At all.
@dark_drakon6814 its called bribing here too. "Lobbying" is what you're thinking of and it's influencing people. Which everyone does. Having a regular argument youre trying to influence that person. You're a lobbyist for your side of the argument. The problem is lobbying the government in most cases now. It isnt lobbying. Its just outright bribery. It isn't legal. But no one fights it.
There's a easier way, make a Boot USB with rufus. It will let you skip: minimum requeriments, TMP, Microsoft account and it will automatically say no to data collection.
@@LovelyBlazingRush Thing about the EU is, it's not America. If they wanted to demand that any digital gatekeeper who wants to do business in Europe must offer an open market to all customers, technically all Microsoft could do is either give in to their demands or stop selling in the EU. There's nothing stopping the EU from saying something like "Your shit's not allowed in here if you're geofencing your compliance measures" and that'd be the end of it. Because people barely have rights there, let alone corporations.
@@randomzocker8956 "If u are an eu citizen, the law still applies to you, even outside of the eu..." thats not true its quite literally the opposite - the law applies to everyone on the EU, even non-eu citizens, but if you leave the EU it doesnt apply to you anymore
I think there's actually a decent chance that Microsoft will roll these changes out worldwide, since they will realize that everyone who wants to will find a workaround anyway. Many people won't even realize that there were any changes made.
It's true that there's a good chance Microsoft will implement these changes worldwide, as most users who want to can find a workaround anyway. However, many people may not even realize that changes have been made. This is something I often observe among my friends, family, and others. From my perspective as an IT professional, it's clear that the majority of Windows users either lack the knowledge or don't want to deal with these issues; they prefer to use the operating system as it is.
It's highly doubtful honestly. Microsoft within the last few years (most notably since Satya Nadella has been CEO,) has taken many steps in inconveniencing the user and will go to any length to discourage the user from making changes they want to their system. With Windows 11, it is still perfectly possible to use the Windows 10 taskbar through permissions exploits with logonui.exe, but you can never use it for your standard user account even though it's clear the classic taskbar is there and is preferred by many due to it being functionally complete compared to the rebuilt Windows 11 taskbar. Microsoft has also been very anti-consumer when rolling out Windows 10 to Windows 7 and 8 users. Those who did not want Windows 10 would use the "X" to close out the window offering the upgrade. While to most users, "X" means they don't want the offer or wanted to defer. But because these users didn't explicitly select "no," the upgrade was forced on the users anyway. Some of these upgrades were performed stealthily, with some not even receiving notification that an upgrade was going to take place. Their computers would reboot throughout the night and users would wake up to Windows 10. These are just a couple of examples. But Microsoft has been anti-consumer for at least the past 10 years, I wouldn't expect their claws to lighten up any where they don't have to. However, wishful thinking is always welcome.
I worked at a small PC shop/service place for a while and what we did was just unplug the internet and always just make a new user. If the people want MS account features they know enough to get it done themselves, if they don't know what it is they won't miss it. Of course we also turned off as much telemetry as possible.
They had disabled that in the windows setup past a certain version of windows 11. Doesn't matter if there is no internet unless it's an enterprise or pro version or something like that. I don't know for certain because I use any other operating system I can.
@@nostressyjessie Oh no you can do it in windows 11. You first just input the keybind for command prompt, then manually disable your wifi driver and restart with a specific reboot code. Then it should pop right up and let you boot into a windows account unaffiliated with a Microsoft account. Source: I did this about 5mo ago when my mom bought a new laptop. I also uninstalled a bunch of useless apps. I would have liked to install... what is it Small11? debloated version of the OS, but unfortunately i didn't have the time. Also tried just using an older OS version like 10, but they had drivers the hardware needed that couldn't work without 11 for some ungodly reason.
Microsoft isn't selling OS's anymore, they are selling your data. For a number of reasons, my primary desktop OS is still Windows. Windows would be so much better if it was somewhat more open, letting there be native support for ext file systems instead of the godawful filesystem we have known as NTFS. I feel like networking will still be better on unix-like Operating Systems, but since WSL is a thing. I hope the folks at ReactOS and WINE are able to implement source code leaks via clean-room programming. I hope Microsoft is able to open more parts of windows to implement features that are commonplace in Linux. I hope the EU and other regulators can stop Microsoft and their 3 E's (Embrace Extend Extinguish). As things like WINE and DXVK get better, Microsoft will be cornered into (a) making their products better or (b) making their competitors' products worse while creating more risk for regulation. Side note - I'm still mad adobe has kept Flash proprietary in spite of dropping all support. I wish somewhere like the EU required companies to release source code on abandoned projects. There are so many Flash animations and games that are historically significant.
@@lindenreaper8683Regardless of what you use, regardless of your acquired skills, regardless of how protected you think you are.... DARPA (Arpanet) is always watching you through tech you don't even have a clue about.
I hope videos like this will become more popular. People always complain about EU (sometimes rightly so) but nobody is talking how many positive changes they made. I guess people love to complain because they can feel superior and righteous.
We like to complain because for every minor tech thing they do right, they do 100 much more important things wrong. Ultimately, this is really minor. If you really care about customisability and having full control over your system, you'll just install a Linux based OS. But I can't just install another job market when all the low skill labour is taken by foreigners, I can't just install another meat cooler at the store when our butchers abuse EU legislation to circumvent national food laws, etc. etc. Sure, things like the GDPR, the universal charger stuff and now this is all great and credit where it's due, but we shouldn't flip around and tolerate all the bullshit they do because they throw us a bone once every now and then.
@@plebisMaximusthe low skill labour is taken by foreigners? In germany, they desperately search for people to work there, foreigners cant fix this entirely
People will always complain the same amount, regardless of how good or bad the situation is. The crucial difference is what they complain about. Someone complaining about the difficulty of uninstalling bloated software from their PC is in a much better place than someone complaining about not having clean water to drink.
@@czerskip If you're using some child-locked version of Windows that doesn't give you admin privileges then you've only got yourself to blame. Reinstall and pick better.
as someone working in tech who sets up half a dozen new windows laptops every month, this is a great change. we needed annoying workarounds to remove bloatware, upgrade to pro (and then intune-deploy business) was a pain in the ass if we had a windows home device because of the MS account thing and we use firefox as default for everyone, so the default apps change is a nice thing too. I had been able to set firefox as default to open links inside of outlook just yesterday, im unsure if that was a feature already or if its connected to this change (win11)
@@tone6410 That's a good suggestion, but I have a U.S. Verizon branded Galaxy Note 9 with Knox kernal protection, and it's one of the hardest locked smart phones in history; I can't root it. I've been shopping for a newer phone that I can root, but it needs to work with U.S. Verizon AND be cheap, so no luck yet.
Great video and this is a very welcome change for Windows! Just one clarification: this change is for the EEA, which is NOT the EU. (This is confusing even for us who live here tbh) TLDR: EEA includes Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which are not part of the EU.
Wrong. The EEA includes the EU countries PLUS non EU countries, which are Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Which means this change is for the entirety of Europe plus some extra countries
Well, the 3 extra EEA countries adopt EU laws (which they don't have a say in) except in areas of foreign policy, fishing & agriculture, trade & customs, justice and home affairs (though they do anyway because they're part of the Schengen area) it is EU legislation with a few other countries tagging along
@@poika22 If they make the European image available publicly outside of Europe, then yes, that is a possibility. Otherwise, someone will eventually distribute it somewhere.
@@t74devkw There is no "European image" and I doubt there ever will be. It's one image that adjusts depending on what you choose during installation. The Home version and Proversion use the same installer image too. Unplug your ethernet during installation. You should already be doing that for a variety of reasons.
I'm very satisfied with this outcome! Hopefully EU's latest success stories will inspire more countries to bond together and resist invasive gigacorps that seeks to exploit their market dominance.
That's partly what the EU is for. There are some other economic alliances out there but not consumer protection-oriented enough to make headlines. In other words, the EU is doing God's work.
@@HyperMario64 To be fair, it took the EU a very long learning curve to be where we are today... Just back 10 years from now, the EU parliament in Brussels was packed full with old folks that had no idea what the internet is and thus just could not make any consumer oriented decisions, even if they tryed their best.
@@guts2787 Ahh, classical conservative bs while most Europeans (generally the same dumb conservatives) happily consume pig that bathed in its own poo just so it can be produced for 2ct/kg...
@@ultimate9056 Chat Control is a still pending proposed law that would allow the ban of end-to-end encryption, the main reason was to prohibit access to CSAM material via VPN, CSAM is a term to sound more serious when trying to ban loli content. Also Mental Outlaw made a video about Chat Control.
some eu people want to install chat control to better fight cp and cp dogehistles like loli animee girls which is ofc a problem but the solutions is disproportional af@@ultimate9056
While this is a great out of the box privacy change i'm still not switching from win 10 yet until small taskbar icons and taskbar on any side of the screen are a officialy supported feature like it is in win10. Having taskbar at the top or the side of the monitor is just infinitely better and it became a habit from linux that i can't go back from.
@@autohmae them stopping the support means nothing i can still use win10 if win11 is just bad and doesn't have the features i need or has too many features i dislike
I am happy to be living in the EU because of this, for one. One thing EU did that I have found to be problematic is the Cookies law. Where some pages go out of their way to make opting out as hard as possible. By hiding the option or splitting up the options to several toggles.
08:00 CAREFUL! This "Beta" Program is the windows insiders program. This is a program where you can try the newest features from Windows, some are probably not stable, BUT you also still send more Data to MS (I mean you are pretty much a Beta tester)
I mean that’s what it is literally marketed as. In fact the explicitly mention penalty not running the insider version of windows in prod. Meaning I use the canary flight as my daily driver.
In regards to the account creation problem when installing windows, how I used to get around it when I had to install windows on dozens of PCs at a time was I'd just leave the PCs disconnected from the internet before inserting the USB. If the PC connects to the internet at any time during installation, it'll prompt for a Microsoft account. But if you wait until after its installed then you can progress without creating an account. I assume this was done for people who live in remote areas without internet so they can still install it.
As an EU windows user I am sooo glad that our government actually cares about privacy and doesn't allow big tech to trample our rights (that much at least)
@@ThZuao that's the general directive, the implementation of it belongs to various sub governments, in my case the govt of Poland. So it's a question of individual ban implementations. And apart from that, how would that make sense? Banning e2e encryption? How would banks work then? Or any kind of sensitive stuff?
@@MiSt3300in EU Poland is considered 3rd World country they took in just for cheap work wage. The yogurts that say get made for Germany in Poland would not hit the shelves off Poland. Take off the pink glasses Bro to think the government cares for you.
@@iceManSwag the government has changed not long ago, and yes, while people are battling the cost of living crisis I don't see how Poland is different from other countries in the region, I find living here quite convenient. You sound like you've never been in continental europe / central europe.
Yeah. We’re at a point where there’s no way big companies are going to regulate themselves. I get the fear of regulation, but there’s a reason gambling is so regulated. The hammer MUST drop.
Maybe you should realise it are regulations we need in many areas alone to survive. The current large nations in the free world increasingly are having politicians that have no morale or ethics but more and more resemble communist party committee members in their lack of daring to speak their mind. Margrethe Vestager are the EU commissionaire that are behind the results against the tech firms. A Microsoft based computer are today basically a client in a server/client relationship. VERY hard to understand why not one have come up with a store purchasable product based on modules coming from an entirely "from scratch" programming. Not only do we live in a technological "1984" version of reality online in relation to the tech companies and the intelligence services but people on top decides to pay for clocks, cars, phones etc that both monitors them 24/7 in real time but on top monetises that information through data brokers! For the last 50+ years we have had more than enough insight into the consequences of what our current greenhouse gas emissions will do to our planet and its climate and still in 2023 fossil fuels are the most subsidised sector. It´s beyond insane considering the 4 stroke hydrogen car/truck/train/ship engine have been invented and works just as fine as those running on fossil fuels. The hydrogen jet engine are invented and yet the jet engine manufacturers and the airplane manufacturers do not make hydrogen based planes despite they would be lighter and/or have even longer range as well. When it comes to USA.... As long as Americans have to register their political party before voting. As long as Americans accept the US lobby laws, that judicially would be corruption in ANY EU nation. As long as America keeps the anti democratic electoral college. As longs as Americans accept you can redefine voter districts again and again between elections. As long as Americans accept their media are owned by the same that donates heavily to political parties. YOU will be screwed over and over again to the point where US human life´s have as little value as in Russia and China! USA are amongst the nations that have a full set of icecores and thus its leaders have full knowledge of the consequences of climate change. YET USA (and similar leaders in Australia, Canada and UK) do not transition to a fossil fuel free energy production and usage. All mentioned nations have optimal conditions for raising offshore windmills for bulk production of electricity and green hydrogen, that EASILY can provide all the electricity and green fuels their nations need. AND it will be cheap and fast to raise. NOT a cost but an investment that would allow these nations to transition AND laugh all the way to the bank and still it does not happen. Democracy have broken down in these nations where Murdoch media have had significant market shares for a longer period. Media have broken down. Politicians have lost their way. Talking about self regulation when it comes to the fossil fuel industry, nuclear industry, military complex and not least the software industry are absurd nonsense. MORE regulation and oversight are needed if we are to survive ourselves as species. It have never been a good strategy to bury your head in the sand when your house is on fire! “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan
The EU single handedly protecting the entire tech community Edit: the EU isn't the US, they don't abuse human rights at every step they can, just because they could POTENTIALLY in the future pass a law that goes against the will of the people doesn't mean it will. The EU has plenty of hurdles that make such a thing difficult.
"The Digital Services Act" Breaks Article 8 and 10 of the ECHR human rights laws. It also breaks UN human rights laws. Article 8 "Correspondence" CSS Client-side scanning of communications software and services. ( pushing to ban private communications ). "Privacy" They've given themselves the legal right to install survaliance software on private devices without the users knowledge, seems currently aimed at journalists. Article 10. "Freedom of expression" Censorship of on line services and speech. Including "Disinformation" take down requests and the blocking of legal websites. They're also looking to make open source software illegal. Your comment is uneducated I'm afraid buddy.
@@notjustforhackers4252 are you running around, copy-pasting same misleading and disinformation comment everywhere, despite being shown false? Saw same exact post yesterday on LTT, but I cant remember user name
@@netiturtle Prove that the statement is, as you say, false. Or are you just another EU shill that is going round copy-pasting same misleading and "disinformation" claiming this isn't true? I suggest you read both the "Digital services act" and ECHR, UN human rights laws before dismissing facts. Good lad.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 It's not only about the system, it's about having free software (the vision of the dangerous communists over at GNU). The thing is that proprietary software is still necessary for an awful amount of people, not to mention that desktop Linux sucks. It's frequent to have missing drivers and software distribution is a mess in desktop Linux. I would encourage trying out a top-rated Linux distribution too, and be happy if that was enough for them. But wouldn't expect everyone to stick around with it.
I wonder if Microsoft’s windows setup will require connection to the internet as it does now. Because if it doesn’t it should be as easy as just setting your region to Europe during setup. Personally I think this is fantastic news. Although it remains to be seen if that applies to the UK where I am.
Long story short, it's because their politicians have been blaming the EU for their corruption, flaws and mistakes since the very beginning. So, now, the UK people are basically stuck in the house with their abusers after voting to lock the door. The EU has its issues, and they are many. But a lot of what the UK believed is straight up wrong and nonsensical. Imagine your partner beats you and blames the neighbours for that, for decades. So, you go: "Fk the neighbours. I'm going to never talk to them again, we're going to lock everything down, and I'll trust you (the abusive partner), to stop the abuse!" Guess what happened? Lol. Leaving the EU wouldn't technically have been a problem if they could've made sure that they got politicians who weren't corrupt ideologues. Except, there wouldn't have been any point in leaving at all, if their politicians hadn't been corrupt ideologues, in the first place. But whatever. It is what it is.
In the Windows installer you can try the "Windows N" versions. These versions are specifically intended for the E.U. to comply with regulations. You will apparently need to install media codecs to make some apps and (I think more importantly) games function correctly.
@@23GreyFox Windows N is a windows version which doesn't include programs which have free market competitors available. It was forced on Microsoft to stop Microsoft leveraging their monopoly in the OS market to push market share in areas like browsing, multimedia, etc. It has never gained much adoption because it can be fiddly to use and requires more expertise from the end user, however it does remove a lot of trash but far from all of it, a lot of the trash included in Windows installs don't fall under the requirements upon MS which Windows N came out of and thus isn't removed.
While the EU does good things, they also have crazy ideas. Have you ever heard of Chat Control? They basically wanted to be able to search for any private message "to prevent child abuse"..... They also wanted to end the End to End encryption.
Jesus Christ never though I’d be rooting for EU politics, considering I’m American, but all these policy changes makes it seem like they have some-what competent, technical people in their government compared to the nursing home of a senate we have here. Don’t know about the rest of their politics but thank god they’re actually smacking these companies to be better. Sheesh.
They're the same bureaucrats policing memes and shutting down accounts for "antidemocratic disinformation". Be very wary of who you call based these days.
@@fakeplaystore7991 you have the same in the US anyway, where the US government doesn't touch with regulations it makes happen anyway by colluding with private companies in a "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" arrangement. Forget this notion of "based" bureaucrats, but it is better than having this shit into the law books because you have it anyway, either way and at least with the EU you can tell how stuff will go down in court because everything is regulated. You may say a lot of shit you like the US, but you go on saying certain things while working for someone else, especially some ESG listed company and you see how long you hold your job after that.
I use the extension Custom User Agent String to effectively use my PC as a Chromecast and cast TH-cam from my phone to my non-smart TV (via the browser extension) to avoid annoying Chromecast ads (thanks to the ad-blocking extensions).
I'm surprised by that change to not requiring a Microsoft Account for login. Mostly because I've had a local account on my Windows 10 box for years now, since 2018 or so. It was certainly a bit of a hassle to set up - Counterintutive things like turning off wifi before booting the computer, but all in all very worth it for the 10 min or so I spent avoiding the pit traps Microsoft sets up during setup.
A few years back I had these stupid screen locks on my Microsoft account because of my parents. So I made a new secret windows partition with a debloated windows version, and could use my computer without the lock, and on a local account. Then I logged into the Xbox app thing to play a game and it completely overrid my local account and re-locked everything and I couldn't get it back. I was all sorts of pissed.
I hope that every version will be avaliable in every country. I still remember how the windows "NT" version didn't have livetream codecs pre-installed because of a "anti-monopoly" regulation (or something) and it was an absolute horror to make viewing TH-cam livestreams on it. These regulations sound good on paper but there is no telling if Microsoft is going to botch it so that you will be (ironically) better off with the original version.
they will probably try to come up with something similar to zuck's fuckery where instead of letting them make 10 cents off of you for your data, you can pay them 15 bucks every month
5:00 - AND M$ FORCED THIS ON ENTERPRISE USERS WITHOUT WARNING - This was such a pain in the arse to fix. Creating a Group Policy to undo this was unneeded and stupid.
I am dreading having to do the whole rufus thing to install windows 11 on my windows machine. Thank god I have a linux desktop and laptop to get by on for most of what I do these days.
It literally states on the bottom of the screen you showed, that they use the Region set in windows, with a warning that changing it will reset Windows.
So? Back up your data or just redownload everything. That's what I'm gonna do cuz I don't have critical files on my laptop. Everything remotely critical is backed up automatically in my case.
@AMD_Fan_98 I don't mean any disrespect when I say the following, I am always amazed by people like you, in my case I have no confidence in restoring everything back how it was. There used to be good programs that did a proper restore after install but I haven't seen a good one lately.
@@JakeSDN Yea no worries. All ive got on my laptop are a couple steam games and some other stuff and stuff like word docs for school are in the cloud but I understand you may have other stuff too. Might I suggest just cloning your hdd or use the built backup feature in Windows but idk. Cheers
This is awesome, can't wait for the EU's next move on tech Would be awesome if they told Samsung to let people get rid of all the bloat because their latest phones are insanely bloated, like tens of gigabytes of preinstalled garbage..
@@Noname72105 just a proposal, not yet voted because there is no consensus. it seems it is Spain who is pushing the hardest for this, but i seriously doubt we'll see a ban on end to end encryption. Germany for example is against it.
It could have both advantages and disadvantages. If there is a EU concurrent of Microsoft, they might bargain for concessions. Sure, it would also come with many advantages, but it would be not a clear cut good advantages
4:30 love how they phrase this. They tried to make it sound like they're adding this awesome and useful feature, so unsuspecting readers will be completely unaware that now, they're actually giving users the choice of NOT using the feature, as opposed to forcing them to use it like they used to. By the way, you could skip that step during Windows 10/11 setup by simply disconnecting from the internet at the right time. I did it with my Win11 laptop 2 years ago. Though I've heard they've since made it harder to avoid in more recent updates.
Incredibly based move by EU to make Microsoft let users remove preloaded apps. It's especially frustrating when companies ship their products with apps that are in the app stores, yet make it so they can't be uninstalled, like what was the case with the phone line-up my phone is from (Galaxy S20 series) and Netflix. It's available in the Play Store for downloading, yet it was forced upon me and everyone else with a phone from the same line-up and unable to be uninstalled. My only option was to uninstall updates and then disable it.
Maybe you should have mentioned Unofficial Tiny versions of the OS like Tiny10 , Tiny11 as bloat free versions by default and running fine on low endl devices.. keep up the good work :)
@@mariuspuiu9555 Exactly, those sunday "hackers" don't know what they're doing most of the time, creating an unnecessary strain on tech support (it makes some money for said techies, but it's mostly stupid shit and there are better things to do). Finally, as demonstrated above, there is only one way of making corporation comply with consumer protection - bringing down the LAW upon them.
This. It's infuriating to me that I can't have root access on a device that I paid for and own. I could give a shit less how "dangerous" and "insecure" the manufacturer and carrier claim it is. It's of no consequence as the device doesn't belong to them. They can fuck right on off.
Root is pointless for 99.9% of people because they don't need it. They aren't tech-savvy. Enabling root access by default is stupid and an unnecessary security risk. That being said, I do agree that companies shouldn't prevent you from having root access if you need it.
@@dudebroguymate That's what I'm saying, genius. "Enabled", not "active". Basically, giving the owner the option to turn on root without needing to hack his own device via usb and voiding the warranty. Root is valuable for everyone, if only to remove bloatware or install apps that require it. In regard to 99% not being tech-savvy: That is a manufactured issue, caused by nanny-tech that is constantly reducing functionality and taking agency away from the user. The first step needed for more people to know their way around technology is to give them access to it and let them learn.
Helpful advice for anyone in the US interested in this: 1 If you choose Ireland you're just one more user with language settings set to "English" that won't stick out like a sour thumb. 2 If you care to set a fake address, consider choosing: - Co. Waterford (Port Lairge). There's a townland called "Burgery" (Burgáiste). Close as I could get to writing BURGER on the form and having it point to an actual place. - Co. Kerry (Ciarraí). There's a townland called "Mucra", which is as close as I could find to MURRICA. I hope this helps.
Problem with these apps lies in a different spot. Microsoft made these programs pretty much integral part of the OS. If you uninstall Edge or few other things, OS may go corrupt after some time, happened few times already for me.
I eventually renamed all of the system files for edge. The only issue I have now is that I have an icon in the bottom of my screen telling me that I'm online but internet is not available, when clearly I'm connected to the internet.
EU should actually get involved a little bit more in this. Windows 7 was the last Windows to be actually user-oriented. No telemetry, no unnecessary bloatware. And it worked just fine. Windows 8/8.1 was the last stable Windows in my eyes. It had a lot of Microsoft's bloatware (you could uninstall things though, also set the windows update properly), but it was really decent at consuming resources properly, also later versions of 8 and starting from 8.1 gave you the automatic updates for your hardware (GPU, sound, basically all of the drivers), which we also have today in W10 and 11. The TPM requirement is also ridiculous, since it only really affects performance on the older CPU's (anything that's below 6th gen Intel, for example). Also, you can install the last version of Photoshop on Windows 8.1 if you know how to tweak the installer a bit, but Adobe normally restricted you to do so, by manually introducing a restriction on the OS version.
Didn't we have this exact issue already when Microsoft first started shipping IE with Windows? Don't know if there was an EU case as well, but there definitely was a US antitrust case about this.
Yes, Microsoft have been forced to create Windows N for Windows already which unbundled some things. However Windows N was an antitrust situation where Microsoft was seen to leverage a monopoly in one area to unfairly gain marketshare in another. This is not the same deal as this sets wider standards for how platforms need to work rather than targeting specifically Microsoft due to their monopoly position. The case which spawned Windows N had no effect on Apple's OSX or IOS whereas the Digital Markets Act is about everyone opening up their platforms to fair competition and letting users take control.
Note that even with a VPN, a computer still has a local network IP that the VPN tunnels through. And reverse geo-mapping will tell what country that IP terminates in. So a networked desktop machine will still reveal where it's running even without a GPS and with the VPN active.
For years I was against the EU project. But when they take on big corporations like Apple and Microsoft I am beginning to change my mind. I hope they will be able to stop Monsanto's poison also
The workaround for the Microsoft Account during Windows install is easy: Don't connect to the internet during early install. After you get to the account creation step, if you "don't have internet" it allows Local Account creation. Then you hook up the internet and continue as usual.
Public Service Announcement: Don't uninstall Edge before having installed another browser. It's kinda hard to download a browser without being able to view websites. (Back in the Win9x days, it _was_ possible to uninstall Internet Explorer and run into this exact problem.)
So one problem I see with this is the implementation of some apps that use dialogs for SSO. Those SSO Windows are an instance of Edge, and removing Edge from windows breaks the core functionality regardless of if you have another browser installed. Not that I'm complaining, this is a good thing and will likely lead to the necessary changes to fix this issue, but its something we should keep an eye on.
In the blog it does state when you are setting up Windows and you choose a country in the EU then you will have the changes. So, you can just set up as a country in the EU and when you are done switch the location/time to whatever country you are in.
Since Linux became stable enough I have wondered why there have not been one deciding to bundle a yearly version and provide it with manual and a guarantee based on own SW testing of the bundled. You could still make a homepage people could look at for updates if backdoors/snags/compability issues should emerge. OR someone deciding to make a "from scratch" programming of a new control system based on a promise to not monetise data nor snoop in general. One thing are the intelligence services monitoring but the monetisation of peoples actions on a control system they bough and paid for truly are insane. That our politicians allow it says as much about us as voters, as of them as humans.
00:29 🖥 Microsoft's compelled to allow uninstallation of default Windows apps in the EU market, including Edge, Bing, Cortana, and more, reducing bloat and granting users more control. 01:39 🌐 Changes in Windows layout with clearer labels for system components differentiate them from random internet search results. 02:18 🛠 New options like feeds and web search customization might benefit app developers, potentially affecting user experience. 03:30 💻 EU users can choose to sync Windows with a Microsoft account, addressing a long-standing issue of forced Microsoft account integration. 04:51 🔄 Default app settings may still prompt Microsoft products to open under certain circumstances, even when another app is set as default. 05:47 🤔 Questions arise about potential methods for non-EU users to access these privacy and user benefits by tricking Windows into thinking their location is within the EU. 08:09 🌍 The possibility of circumventing region-based restrictions by altering system settings or utilizing activation scripts is anticipated, potentially extending these benefits beyond the EU.
I hope you realize that the image used in 2:25 is racist against us Indians. Been a long time viewer of your channel, I now feel let down by your choices of images and the surrounding commentary. Please take that clip out of the video.
@@aman.vashisht Is he Muslim? The obvious hate boner for Indians, the scruffy, unkempt beard, and now this Kashmir take. Like, there is no way in the universe he's not a Muslim.
When being able to uninstall the software on your hardware is considered a victory.
its a never ending fight, but keep on punching, thats what we do
@slowstone72 yeah agreed, its ironic we use the word PC for those corpo machines
you can still install windows without network connection . then you won't need a Microsoft account ...
It's pretty much impossible to control your hardware when you use it as a general purpose computer.
Well right now, because the situation is that bad.
If only the US Government would give as much of a care about tech as the EU does
The us government is stuck in the past
They care very much tech, specifically how it can be abused.
@@stremixx7176 Don't (necessarily) think so. It's more so that US government has a lot of benefit from US business both international and national with such questionable companies. And 60's spy agency would have nuked a small country for spy and manipulation tools that people freely sign up for.
They care. They're just on the tech companies' side.
That's because these are American companies the EU has no real software companies worth anything of value so they go after American companies
The EU is literally saving the Global Tech industry
Saving the tech industry... from the tech industry
No, it's saving the public from the tech industry
@@JackdotCYeah that too.
Don't let the EU think they're on your side.
@@generalzucc462 That makes zero sense.
It always baffled me how Apple users only being able to download from the Apple store didn't go against freedom of market, competition etc.
The reason why it should not go against freedom of market and why the EU Enforcing it on Apple is bullshit is because Apple holds no such monopoly. There’s only one iPhone you can buy, there’s only one brand using iOS. Apple should have the right to control what Their devices do. Just like how for example Sony has the right to control what the PlayStation plays, or how Nintendo decides what the Switch plays. It baffles me that the EU Actually forced Apple to allow other app stores because it only compromises the security i want in my phone.
That problem can be easily fixed by buying an android.
@@GT86_S5MK Yes and to strengthen my own point, lets look at Android. there it makes sense that it allows full on sideloading, because there google Does have a monopoly, where Every phone manufacturer HAS to get android, or else the phone sells horribly. with Apple as the sole exception. There google certainly Would be a gatekeeper if they only allowed apps from the google store. but because Apple is simply in the same situation as Nintendo, or Sony. they only have their own product which has its own OS, they should have the right to decide what happens on their device.
@@JimV. "Apple should have the right to control what Their devices do". No that is up to the customer. As soon as you buy a telephone that telephone is yours and not from Apple.
@@JimV. Phone manufacturers don't have to use android, they just have to develop an operating system that can actually compete, which would cost a ton of money with no upside. Most people buy phones for features; you can't launch a phone with less features than your competitors and expect people to buy it.
My god the Eu is incredibly based with tech
well they do miss alot too, but all in all im happy with them
yea but also censors everything... like Steam in Germany is awful cuz most games are hidden away cuz Steam has no legit true Age verification... so many nice games that are brutal, gory and or show a bit more skin... are just right out banned.
While yes sometimes they make good changes for normal users... Gamers get shafted every time
Says the Euro slave who can't freely share memes or else the Euro Internet Police will send him to the Euro-gulag.
*except for their continued push to kill end to end encryption and ssl certification and all sorts of privacy and security measures*
@@ShadeColdfang What does that have to do with the EU?
EU: "Now, regarding the Windows 11 TPM requirements..."
Seems the EU is doing what the FTC should be doing.
Why why why why whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy can't we get the FTC to do a SINGLE bit of its job in the past 20 fucking years? I hate being an american.
Their job? Lol
The EU always does its job. Even if it isn't always for everyone's best, they do it, and do it well.
The EU wants to keep their monopoly on citizens data XD
@@FMHikari most of the time
I always felt stupid "Searching" for a file and being given search engine results
true
use the programm "everything"
More bloatware on already bloated system lol
I gave up on Windows search from 7 onwards ... the Bash shell that comes with Git is much better for searching.
I also think it's stupid to hide the means to disable such a feature behind the registry. You have to go out of your way to add that stupid dword yourself just to have a slightly better functioning search bar without the bing crap.
I love the EU. They've done more for the tech industry than Apple and Microsoft have done in recent years.
Microsoft has done something for the tech industry?
@@LMB222 Well, nothing that BENEFITS the tech industry, granted. As much as I criticise Apple, they did show that ARM architecture can pull its weight in desktop environments, and that does better the industry. Meanwhile, Microsoft have yet to make their own bloody operating system run well on x86 for more than 2 years. But the EU seem to be the real innovator. Or at least making sure everyone plays fair.
@@mitchib1440 EU is making sure that no U.S. spying happens in EU, as these tech giants are U.S. and it's a known fact that they (except Apple), have backdoors opened for CIA, and obviously nobody likes it besides U.S. Regarding Apple, the "making sure everyone plays fair", it is more about stopping Apple's stupid schemes of monopolizing market or creating stuff where consumer has to constantly buy something in order for the product to work which should work out of the box and not with additional purchases.
Thanks to these forced regulations they have to stop their stupidity. And with Microsoft it's more about being fair and not trying to steal.
And they destroyed 10000 other things.
But for every 1 good thing they do like this they fuck the dog so badly on other things that they redefine rape per se
Like the asinine immigration rules they try to force on members regardless of internal laws Ireland is a perfect example
Sometimes the EU sucks, but i love it when they show the Finger to Big Tech
Sometimes? More akin to 95%, but when it doesn't suck it's glorious.
Yeah like that one time when they proposed the (still pending) law to ban end-to-end encryption.
How does it suck though? It cracks on big tech, doesn't have blue vs green bubble war, doesn't require you to own a car to be able to live. and overall is pretty based
Forgot mention the tipping culture, lol
it's really just a bigger bully telling the slightly smaller bully to chill out on the evil lmao
@@qunas101 no 1st ammendment... no 2nd ammendment... absurd taxes... refugees... collapsing birth rates...-
Imagine if EU mandates that everyone should have root access to their own devices. A simple solution to most of the software problems.
And root access to their own countries over "immigrants"
Weird this is actually what should solve the issue. Ship tech and let people be root, specially in android
Because having root access is a huge vulnerability that hackers/viruses can exploit too. And you don't want your average user to be able to, let's say, delete the windows folder
Don't stop at root access. Root access *and* full control over ring 0. The fight isn't over as long as M$ still controls kernel space.
@@timecornwhy not? Why not have an average user be able to delete or break something? Because they're too stupid? I think it should be up to the user to decide. And root access does not equal insecure root access, you just have to do it well.
EU regulations being based once again. Also remember, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) brought you worldwide Steam refunds as well for much the same reasons in that it was easier to implement a thing globally than it is to have an exclusive EU or Australian market thing. Also my Onedrive account is based in Ireland for it to be covered under GDPR lol.
No, Microsoft will launch Windows N again and that's it.
Or even worse, make it geolocked.
Australian consumer rights are so based. I love living here.
@@mr2octavio they won’t as most of their customers are enterprise. They will not go into the legal nightmare that is that. Not to mention all this will do is increase non enterprise piracy and by law, they still have to patch pirated copies of Windows so there is no incentive to do what you think they would do
@@seakwenzAustralian law is very simplistic.. companies have to do what a reasonable consumer expects.... Here's the problem... You don't know what that is until a judge rules on it. So if someone takes the effort to establish that ( usually the government against big multinationals ), then it's usually a good decision.
@@xpusostomos 'Simplistic' doesn't mean what you or Dave Jones think it does.
The EU regulators are using their power to give us what we all want the tech companies to do and I'm here for it. The market is supposed to create better products for the consumer but that didn't work in tech, so I'm glad the EU is stepping in and making sure that the market can do its job.
What about if you're in the UK? It's out of the EU, but obviously still in Europe... How does Microsoft treat windows users in the UK?
This actually happened back in 2009! The EU confronted MS about the presence of Internet Explorer in Windows 7 as an unremovable and default web browser option, and MS made a big show about shipping an EU version that didn't have IE unless you opted in to have it. However, they ended up just shipping the exact same Windows 7 that the rest of the world got. They got fined a bunch of euros and ultimately didn't care.
If they just get fined again, I'm sure they still won't care.
Steam gets hit by the EU all the time, and fighting the EU actually costs less than changing their business practices lol
and besides, I'm not sure we should be happy about EU acting as a regulator to US-based multinationals and industry leaders, even if we are talking about _Microsoft._
I don't think that's a standard we want to become more normalized? Wouldn't it be bad for tech, and bad for consumers in the US in the long run?
@@BryanHanrahan-ts2zcBillions of euros
@@tictacterminatorI doubt you understand what's going on. A minimum fine in the EU is either 10% of a companies yearly revenue or a few million euros - whichever is larger. Given that companies can be hit with multiple of these fines per lawsuit it can mean bankruptcy for even the largest companies.
IIRC, they started offering the N-suffixed editions for the same or similar reasons. But having no preinstalled media codecs made those unusable so everyone just installs the regular non-compliant versions.
@@nnnik3595 Absolute rip bozo.
I mean, designing an operating system that makes you miss the last version of it EVERY SINGLE TIME is no small feat. It takes a special level of disgust, hatred, and disregard for your user base that has only been matched by the gaming industry. Cheers, Microsoft, you'll always be trash in my book.
Windows for Workgroups, Windows 98, Windows XP, and Windows 7 have been the only end user Windows OS products which I found desirable upgrades from the previous version. Windows 10/11 amounted to being forced due to software not supporting Windows 7.
It was good until windows 8. Even Vista worked pretty well for me.
@@MyContext And even then, 98 and XP had their own unique issues, but I still wish I could go back to either of those, or Windows 2000, or 7.
No one misses vista
@@radicant7283 Still better than 11
[00:00]🖥 Changes in Microsoft Windows due to EU regulations
- The EU has compelled Microsoft to allow uninstallation of default apps in Windows.
- Changes in the layout of Windows, including clearer labels and customization options.
- Choice for EU users to sync or not sync Windows with a Microsoft account.
[01:12] 🛠 Changes in Windows layout and customization
- Clearer labels on system components to differentiate from external elements.
- New customization options for feeds and web search within applications.
- Potential benefits for app developers on the Windows platform.
[02:33] 🌍 Options for Microsoft account data in the EU
- EU users will have the choice not to sync Windows with a Microsoft account.
- Previous issues with the imposition of Microsoft accounts in Windows 10.
- Streamlining setup for clients without requiring a Microsoft account.
[04:38] 🔄 Default app settings in Windows
- Improvements in default app settings in Windows.
- Persistence of Microsoft Edge in certain instances despite changing the default settings.
- Significant updates for European users, although questions arise about their global reach.
[06:01] 🔒 Possibility to extend EU benefits outside of Europe
- Potential way to leverage privacy and user benefits outside the EU.
- Potential challenges in location detection to extend changes beyond Europe.
- Perspectives on the applicability of these improvements beyond the EU borders.
Thank you for taking the time to write such a comprehensive write up of all the changes. May the Ancient gods bless you with luck and reward you accordingly (haha just a joke). But i wish you a nice weekend my dude
thanks Bard!
What in the actual f is that at 2:26, I refuse to believe there are people in this world as rxtxrdxd as this one who believe this...
report on that timestamp
@@shook3487already did
Dirty Indians triggered by facts😂😂
@@dilan-hf9gdgo and ride a horse to your local mcdonalds to stuff a few big macs down yiur throat
go watch your cu*k p*rn little timmy @@dilan-hf9gd
Regarding the Apple GPS thing for only allowing side-loading in the EU, well, it'll be interesting to see how long that lasts. Because I suspect the EU isn't going to just let that fly. Their citizens travel outside the EU after all, and if they bought their phone in the EU and they're an EU citizen, that law probably still applies.
Apple uses SIM cards to activate certain geographic restrictions (irrc with the Japanese law on forcing shutter sound on) I don’t see why they can’t do that with side loading, plus why should Apple have to comply when someone is another jurisdiction?
@@jjaurrgui Because the EU can force Apple to include those terms in their contracts/licenses with EU citizen customers if they want to have those contracts in the first place. And once those terms are in the contracts/licenses, _not_ complying would be breach of contract no matter where in the world it happened.
The regulations apply to devices and software that is operated and sold within the european economic area. It's not attached to citizenship. Much like when an EU citizen travels to, say the US, that citizen is subject to the laws of the US, not the laws of the country of origin, the regulations don't follow that person either over the borders.
@@MrEshah That still depends on how the law is written. If I sign a contract with you to rent a widget, and then I stop paying you but keep the widget, I'm in breach of contract whether I don't pay you while staying in the city where we signed the rental agreement, or if I take the widget to Belize and don't pay you there. I'm sure it's illegal to stop paying rental fees in Belize too, but even if it weren't, if I came back to wherever we signed that rental agreement, I would still have violated the agreement. I'd still have to pay late fees.
The EU could pass a law that requires Apple to include terms in their license agreements, which are a contract with the end user, that say they'll allow side-loading regardless of where that end user goes. At that point it doesn't matter where the EU citizen in question goes, since there's now a contract with Apple stating that Apple will allow them to side-load apps no matter where they go. The EU doesn't have jurisdiction in, say, Chile, but if an EU citizen whose contract with Apple has those terms in it goes to Chile and can't side-load apps, Apple would still be in breach of contract. At that point Apple will have to pay their fines the next time they're in the EU... Except they're _already_ in the EU, because they're still doing business there. So they have to pay their fines for the breach of contract. If they don't want to pay the fines, they have to leave the EU, which they don't want to do.
EU cannot enforce regulations out of territory. It's up to other jurisdictions to start protecting their citizens.
So it takes a massively bloated bureaucracy to force another massively bloated bureaucracy to make changes to their product. Got it.
wtf is a kilometer
😂😂😂😂😂😉😉
@@Cantodorum The kilometre is a thousand metres. 1 metre is the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299.792.458 of a second. Or roughly 1.0936 yards.
@@anon8510settle down bro, uk used shillings until the 70s and europe didn't want to switch to metric way back when metric was new either.
@@anon8510 So is a mile that's based on a meter…
Wish the EU could be like this 100% of the time
When aren't they?
dumbest comment
@@thewhitefalcon8539 they dont like peer to peer
@@thewhitefalcon8539 When they are trying to ban end-to-end encryption, slowly get rid of cash and digitalize the euro and also ban the sale of combustion energy cars
@@thewhitefalcon8539money
Very good news and hopefully it comes to 10 as well! I've had to do so many tweaks and tricks to debloat the system of junk and telemetry (that still isn't all clear...) and yet they still find new ways to install it back on or push a Microsoft account on me (Luckily I never got 11 where they completely force it). It's such a pain and degrades the entire OS. Not to mention sucks up unnecessary space you didn't want to use.
Good news until you realize these "based" laws make the PinePhone illegal.
For real. I am so sick and tired of it asking me to "finish setting up my device" AKA "please please please give us your data and email and sign in and firstborn pleeeeeeease"
@@asheraldaric4193REAL. "pweese win11 is available 🥺u can install for freeeee"
You can still can get arround ussing a accoung in windows 11
@@ivosimons3687 Yes by first go into recovery mode or command prompt something, typing commands to flag it as dev testing, and then do all that stuff.
But what's next? You gonna have to reverse engineer and hack it? You can get around all limitations in one way or another. Like saying "Oh you can get around iPhones restrictions by jailbreaking" yea it's still not very good. The point is you shouldn't have to do these dumb hacks and stuff to do normal things.
Just like we shouldn't have to encrypt, we should be able to send text messages without worrying about companies or states reading them. Yes you can get around it with encryption, and everyone should encrypt regardless, but it is still a bad thing that it is accepted and normalised for companies and states to read through all our messages.
In China you can get around all of their restrictions as well. Still no excuse or place I want to be in.
Something important to remember is that windows is very normie, business, and OEM focused, a few hackermen breaking the region locks isn’t a massive concern of Microsoft because they’re not the primary customer base and won’t be costing them enough money to make them want to stop it.
it's fascinating to compare how the hackermen-fixing-windows pipeline works in Russia compared to EU/USA. when our hackermen fix windows, then every Russian's windows is fixed, because we all pirate it from the same websites (why pay for the OS? especially if the retail version is crappy as hell). however, there is a downside to it: while our installations may lack most of the Microsoft telemetry, normies tend to install our own telemetry on top of it, in forms of Yandex, VKontakte, etc (which, while basing in Russia, are no better). not counting all the other "custom builds" with this stuff installed by default
Microsoft has already left Russia, but I don't think it cost them any significant amount of money to do so because of the piracy.
@@rudzik8164wait, they left us? LOL
@@Its_Myle yup, didn't affect me either
@@rudzik8164As an american I just wanted to say that I love Russia and Russians a lot.
@@rudzik8164 even if most regular users hack it, you cant have hacked software in commerce, education or government. I work at a University, we tried all types of Linux, but the regular user rejects anything that is not windows. Also, I noticed a lot of people in the US and EU buy software, even if a hacked version is two clicks away... I have no idea why.
I would love to see this with Android. I hate all of these bloted apps and not being able to uninstall Netflix and more.
EDIT: I want to clarify that I have an S20 (Samsung) and I cannot choose it because my parents bought it for me and as long as it works, I will use it. I don't like wasting tech or money in my wallet. I am an apprentice, so I don't have a lot.
Dam ... It maybe could be coming as well
You picked the wrong manufacturer if you have bloat :^)
You can use the android debug bridge to force uninstall those apps
@@magnum_mon795It doesn't clear the space used, though. Just freezes the app if installed as System.
thats what i thought as well. prolly huawei phone or something. @@pcrolandhu
It's a step in the right direction but I'm worried about all of the telemetry Windows is still collecting. I can live with bloat but Windows collecting my activity against my will is what really grinds my gears.
Actually it's not it's inside the terms and conditions you agreed too but yeah
You can check out the Ameliorated version =)
every thing collects data. the site your on is collecting data but i dont see you moaning bout that do i
@@GamePlays_1230”just because it’s inside the TOS that makes it okay” 🤓🤓🤓
The internet was developed in part by DARPA (Arpanet), so one could argue, without being able to see what tech DARPA has, you will never be safe on the internet regardless if you think you are the second coming of Neo.
2:25 what are you trying to imply ?
He is salty just like everyone there cause they can't protect their jobs from outsiders
report
@@aakarshanraj1176 report on that timestamp
@@aakarshanraj1176back to your wagie cubicle ranjeesh
This is a really refreshing channel! There's something about the videos that feels like 2012 TH-cam, in a good way. The video isn't dragged out, and there's a strong focus on keeping the content crisp instead of over-stylising with animations/ studio design. Plus big tech channels don't cover workarounds to official software, I've felt a big lack of this sort of content in the past few years.
Subbed.
bc ye bhartiyo ka majak bana raha hai aur to ye ker raha hai
@@asdf5289 I'm pretty sure that's south-east from here, probably 2-3 days by sea
The EU is far from perfect but I really love when they do stuff like this
Margrethe Vestager are the EU commissionaire that are behind the results against the tech firms.
A Microsoft based computer are today basically a client in a server/client relationship. VERY hard to understand why not one have come up with a store purchasable product based on modules coming from an entirely "from scratch" programming based on a promise not to be monitored commercially after purchase. Clearly the market for this have existed for decades and more should ask themselves why not one tech millionaire have decided to do so when Microsoft in last quarter announced an earning´s of 56,5 billion Dollars! Something/someone must tell them it would not be healthy for them to do so. Not only do we live in a technological "1984" version of reality online in relation to the tech companies and the intelligence services but people on top decides to pay for clocks, cars, phones etc that both monitors them 24/7 in real time but on top monetises that information through data brokers!
95% of the shit the EU does is based, it's just that those remaining 5% is what everyone is always talking about so many people have this skewed view that the EU is mostly bad.
their fight against apple and MS is basicly the only good thing from the EU
@@Mike-zx1kx Literally 1984
Under new EU law (the DMA) companies have to offer the same service to all EU citizens no matter where they're currently geographically located (to prevent discrimination), so I don't see how Microsoft can geo-lock this without asking for ID or something.
Remember there are huge parts of the EU in South America (French Guyana), the Caribbean and even Pacific Ocean due to historical colonial ties. These are internal parts of EU countries like the Netherlands and France, not colonies or associated countries.
yeah, france and the netherlands share a land border..... in the Caribbean sea.
@@Ginkoman2And the island of Saint Martin, the island is split between France and the Netherlands
So that means they have to roll out all changes worldwide
I sexually identify as European. So I should have this update do. If I don't get the benefits, Microsoft is confirm trans-national phobic.
@@HeShoeTooBighaha big funny very laugh
Ummm 2:26 what do you mean by this picture.
It's sad this guy being racist
Racist guy. Unsubbed
I am officialy convinced that EU is the church of emacs.
Vim.
EU reamed Apple ass so they're forced to use USB
Trust EU to be impartial... when it comes to fking over corporation
vim@@gregandark8571
nah, the EU is obvously a follower of the cult if vim.
emacs would be being on the side of the corpas
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As someone who personally took steps to set up Windows to run in a VM with hardware passthrough and without TPM, Secure Boot, Edge, etc. I see this as an absolute win and something that should have never been allowed here in the US.
Solution is very simple Just make You have to change with donation To political campaigns. United States System of "donation" In my country im UE is Called bribes
United States legal system:
$1 million donation of One individual. This is not an influence to the political system At all.
@dark_drakon6814 its called bribing here too.
"Lobbying" is what you're thinking of and it's influencing people.
Which everyone does. Having a regular argument youre trying to influence that person. You're a lobbyist for your side of the argument.
The problem is lobbying the government in most cases now. It isnt lobbying. Its just outright bribery. It isn't legal. But no one fights it.
@@TheCosmicAstro- yeah and lobbyist don't just advocate, they write entire bills, which 99% of the congress and senate vote on without reading.
There's a easier way, make a Boot USB with rufus. It will let you skip: minimum requeriments, TMP, Microsoft account and it will automatically say no to data collection.
is that the extent you have to go to tell microsoft updates to F&%# off?
Hopefully the EU goes after them for geofencing the open market changes to the OS next.
They don't have rights to do that and they wouldn't care to do so so 🙁
@@LovelyBlazingRush Thing about the EU is, it's not America. If they wanted to demand that any digital gatekeeper who wants to do business in Europe must offer an open market to all customers, technically all Microsoft could do is either give in to their demands or stop selling in the EU. There's nothing stopping the EU from saying something like "Your shit's not allowed in here if you're geofencing your compliance measures" and that'd be the end of it. Because people barely have rights there, let alone corporations.
Depends on what u want. If u are an eu citizen, the law still applies to you, even outside of the eu...
If u are not, go to your own goverment
They can't. Outside of the EU, your only hope is that your government does something similar, which is unlikely.
@@randomzocker8956 "If u are an eu citizen, the law still applies to you, even outside of the eu..."
thats not true
its quite literally the opposite - the law applies to everyone on the EU, even non-eu citizens, but if you leave the EU it doesnt apply to you anymore
I think there's actually a decent chance that Microsoft will roll these changes out worldwide, since they will realize that everyone who wants to will find a workaround anyway. Many people won't even realize that there were any changes made.
*roll these changes out / roll-out these changes
@@mousermind thanks.
It's true that there's a good chance Microsoft will implement these changes worldwide, as most users who want to can find a workaround anyway. However, many people may not even realize that changes have been made. This is something I often observe among my friends, family, and others. From my perspective as an IT professional, it's clear that the majority of Windows users either lack the knowledge or don't want to deal with these issues; they prefer to use the operating system as it is.
It's highly doubtful honestly. Microsoft within the last few years (most notably since Satya Nadella has been CEO,) has taken many steps in inconveniencing the user and will go to any length to discourage the user from making changes they want to their system.
With Windows 11, it is still perfectly possible to use the Windows 10 taskbar through permissions exploits with logonui.exe, but you can never use it for your standard user account even though it's clear the classic taskbar is there and is preferred by many due to it being functionally complete compared to the rebuilt Windows 11 taskbar.
Microsoft has also been very anti-consumer when rolling out Windows 10 to Windows 7 and 8 users. Those who did not want Windows 10 would use the "X" to close out the window offering the upgrade. While to most users, "X" means they don't want the offer or wanted to defer. But because these users didn't explicitly select "no," the upgrade was forced on the users anyway. Some of these upgrades were performed stealthily, with some not even receiving notification that an upgrade was going to take place. Their computers would reboot throughout the night and users would wake up to Windows 10.
These are just a couple of examples. But Microsoft has been anti-consumer for at least the past 10 years, I wouldn't expect their claws to lighten up any where they don't have to. However, wishful thinking is always welcome.
Finally somebody besides chuck norris can delete Edge
Based Chuck Norris reference
And i finally won't have to have a lingering edge icon even though i deleted almost all files related to edge
I worked at a small PC shop/service place for a while and what we did was just unplug the internet and always just make a new user. If the people want MS account features they know enough to get it done themselves, if they don't know what it is they won't miss it. Of course we also turned off as much telemetry as possible.
They had disabled that in the windows setup past a certain version of windows 11. Doesn't matter if there is no internet unless it's an enterprise or pro version or something like that. I don't know for certain because I use any other operating system I can.
@@nostressyjessie I worked there in the Win10 days so it was easy. I assume that company now uses the console command hacks to get it done.
If you have window pro you just tell it you’re using it for work and local domain join
@@nostressyjessie Oh no you can do it in windows 11. You first just input the keybind for command prompt, then manually disable your wifi driver and restart with a specific reboot code.
Then it should pop right up and let you boot into a windows account unaffiliated with a Microsoft account.
Source: I did this about 5mo ago when my mom bought a new laptop. I also uninstalled a bunch of useless apps. I would have liked to install... what is it Small11? debloated version of the OS, but unfortunately i didn't have the time.
Also tried just using an older OS version like 10, but they had drivers the hardware needed that couldn't work without 11 for some ungodly reason.
@@shirothefish9688 at that point just use Linux, no?
Microsoft isn't selling OS's anymore, they are selling your data. For a number of reasons, my primary desktop OS is still Windows. Windows would be so much better if it was somewhat more open, letting there be native support for ext file systems instead of the godawful filesystem we have known as NTFS. I feel like networking will still be better on unix-like Operating Systems, but since WSL is a thing. I hope the folks at ReactOS and WINE are able to implement source code leaks via clean-room programming. I hope Microsoft is able to open more parts of windows to implement features that are commonplace in Linux. I hope the EU and other regulators can stop Microsoft and their 3 E's (Embrace Extend Extinguish).
As things like WINE and DXVK get better, Microsoft will be cornered into (a) making their products better or (b) making their competitors' products worse while creating more risk for regulation.
Side note - I'm still mad adobe has kept Flash proprietary in spite of dropping all support. I wish somewhere like the EU required companies to release source code on abandoned projects. There are so many Flash animations and games that are historically significant.
I 1000% agree with your side note.
@@lindenreaper8683oh yeah rockstar cares if a random joe plays their game
What's the deal with NTFS?
@@lindenreaper8683what distro do you currently use, and why if you don’t mind, been thinking about moving over to Linux
@@lindenreaper8683Regardless of what you use, regardless of your acquired skills, regardless of how protected you think you are....
DARPA (Arpanet) is always watching you through tech you don't even have a clue about.
I hope videos like this will become more popular. People always complain about EU (sometimes rightly so) but nobody is talking how many positive changes they made. I guess people love to complain because they can feel superior and righteous.
We like to complain because for every minor tech thing they do right, they do 100 much more important things wrong. Ultimately, this is really minor. If you really care about customisability and having full control over your system, you'll just install a Linux based OS. But I can't just install another job market when all the low skill labour is taken by foreigners, I can't just install another meat cooler at the store when our butchers abuse EU legislation to circumvent national food laws, etc. etc. Sure, things like the GDPR, the universal charger stuff and now this is all great and credit where it's due, but we shouldn't flip around and tolerate all the bullshit they do because they throw us a bone once every now and then.
@@plebisMaximusthe low skill labour is taken by foreigners? In germany, they desperately search for people to work there, foreigners cant fix this entirely
People will always complain the same amount, regardless of how good or bad the situation is. The crucial difference is what they complain about. Someone complaining about the difficulty of uninstalling bloated software from their PC is in a much better place than someone complaining about not having clean water to drink.
Another improvement we need is getting rid of the absolute cancer that forced updates and restarts are…
Those delete all restore points tbh
You can disable both from group policy or regedit.
@@poika22 Maybe on *some* versions of windows that's the case, in general: no.
@@czerskip If you're using some child-locked version of Windows that doesn't give you admin privileges then you've only got yourself to blame. Reinstall and pick better.
@@poika22 thats numpty talk
as someone working in tech who sets up half a dozen new windows laptops every month, this is a great change. we needed annoying workarounds to remove bloatware, upgrade to pro (and then intune-deploy business) was a pain in the ass if we had a windows home device because of the MS account thing and we use firefox as default for everyone, so the default apps change is a nice thing too.
I had been able to set firefox as default to open links inside of outlook just yesterday, im unsure if that was a feature already or if its connected to this change (win11)
Congrats to the EU for making the right decision in this case. I hope this decision expands to include Android-based OS!
talk to EDRi about it (its the lobby group making these things happen)
dude just degoogle your phone.
@@tone6410 That's a good suggestion, but I have a U.S. Verizon branded Galaxy Note 9 with Knox kernal protection, and it's one of the hardest locked smart phones in history; I can't root it. I've been shopping for a newer phone that I can root, but it needs to work with U.S. Verizon AND be cheap, so no luck yet.
@@tone6410How about de-serviceprovidering?
It applies to all. But the PinePhone is getting illegal.
What was that exactly at 2:26?
these bl*cks cry racism at the smallest things yet have no issue being racist to others. typical.
Great video and this is a very welcome change for Windows!
Just one clarification: this change is for the EEA, which is NOT the EU. (This is confusing even for us who live here tbh)
TLDR: EEA includes Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, which are not part of the EU.
Wrong. The EEA includes the EU countries PLUS non EU countries, which are Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
Which means this change is for the entirety of Europe plus some extra countries
Well, the 3 extra EEA countries adopt EU laws (which they don't have a say in) except in areas of foreign policy, fishing & agriculture, trade & customs, justice and home affairs (though they do anyway because they're part of the Schengen area) it is EU legislation with a few other countries tagging along
The UK is also fully aligned in following this as far as I know.
No one ever thinks of Andorra 😢
Still setting a good example.
Too bad it's probably going to be EU exclusive.
how
Just wait for an European image to pop up on trackers
@@t74devkw Anyone can download the Windows installer image for free from their official website.
@@poika22 If they make the European image available publicly outside of Europe, then yes, that is a possibility. Otherwise, someone will eventually distribute it somewhere.
@@t74devkw There is no "European image" and I doubt there ever will be. It's one image that adjusts depending on what you choose during installation. The Home version and Proversion use the same installer image too. Unplug your ethernet during installation. You should already be doing that for a variety of reasons.
I'm very satisfied with this outcome! Hopefully EU's latest success stories will inspire more countries to bond together and resist invasive gigacorps that seeks to exploit their market dominance.
That's partly what the EU is for. There are some other economic alliances out there but not consumer protection-oriented enough to make headlines. In other words, the EU is doing God's work.
@@HyperMario64 To be fair, it took the EU a very long learning curve to be where we are today... Just back 10 years from now, the EU parliament in Brussels was packed full with old folks that had no idea what the internet is and thus just could not make any consumer oriented decisions, even if they tryed their best.
now you know why everybody and their dog want to be in the eu - except the brits and aparrantly hungarians :)
Meanwhile also EU - "u will eat ze bug"
@@guts2787 Ahh, classical conservative bs while most Europeans (generally the same dumb conservatives) happily consume pig that bathed in its own poo just so it can be produced for 2ct/kg...
2:26 are you kidding me? Reported for racism.
report on that timestamp
Grow up.
After the Chat Control proposal law because anime girls, I still wouldn't trust the EU.
Care to elaborate for the uninitiated?
@@ultimate9056 Chat Control is a still pending proposed law that would allow the ban of end-to-end encryption, the main reason was to prohibit access to CSAM material via VPN, CSAM is a term to sound more serious when trying to ban loli content.
Also Mental Outlaw made a video about Chat Control.
some eu people want to install chat control to better fight cp and cp dogehistles like loli animee
girls which is ofc a problem but the solutions is disproportional af@@ultimate9056
Context?
pls provide context
While this is a great out of the box privacy change i'm still not switching from win 10 yet until small taskbar icons and taskbar on any side of the screen are a officialy supported feature like it is in win10. Having taskbar at the top or the side of the monitor is just infinitely better and it became a habit from linux that i can't go back from.
It's just a matter of time before MS stops supporting Win 10
@@autohmae them stopping the support means nothing i can still use win10 if win11 is just bad and doesn't have the features i need or has too many features i dislike
@@VitisCZ good luck with security then... Windows XP had it's really serious security issue after a couple of months.
really? windows 11 can't even do that? I'm still on 7 and I can put the damn taskbar whereever I want.
@@autohmae Who gives damn about security? Best security is to use brain more than few seconds.
Thanks for another great report Jayson. Good luck in the NBA in-season tournament.
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I am happy to be living in the EU because of this, for one.
One thing EU did that I have found to be problematic is the Cookies law. Where some pages go out of their way to make opting out as hard as possible. By hiding the option or splitting up the options to several toggles.
08:00 CAREFUL! This "Beta" Program is the windows insiders program. This is a program where you can try the newest features from Windows, some are probably not stable, BUT you also still send more Data to MS (I mean you are pretty much a Beta tester)
I mean that’s what it is literally marketed as. In fact the explicitly mention penalty not running the insider version of windows in prod. Meaning I use the canary flight as my daily driver.
"(I mean you are pretty much a Beta tester)". .
All Windows users: "we always have been"
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In regards to the account creation problem when installing windows, how I used to get around it when I had to install windows on dozens of PCs at a time was I'd just leave the PCs disconnected from the internet before inserting the USB. If the PC connects to the internet at any time during installation, it'll prompt for a Microsoft account. But if you wait until after its installed then you can progress without creating an account.
I assume this was done for people who live in remote areas without internet so they can still install it.
As an EU windows user I am sooo glad that our government actually cares about privacy and doesn't allow big tech to trample our rights (that much at least)
Mate, your gov wants to ban end to end encryption...
@@ThZuao that's the general directive, the implementation of it belongs to various sub governments, in my case the govt of Poland. So it's a question of individual ban implementations. And apart from that, how would that make sense? Banning e2e encryption? How would banks work then? Or any kind of sensitive stuff?
You consider the unelected EU your "government"? Interesting.
@@MiSt3300in EU Poland is considered 3rd World country they took in just for cheap work wage. The yogurts that say get made for Germany in Poland would not hit the shelves off Poland. Take off the pink glasses Bro to think the government cares for you.
@@iceManSwag the government has changed not long ago, and yes, while people are battling the cost of living crisis I don't see how Poland is different from other countries in the region, I find living here quite convenient. You sound like you've never been in continental europe / central europe.
Very nice of you sneaking a nice pic at 2:26. No wonder why everyone calls americans racist.
report
Americans aren't racist.The picture is just showcasing facts,if you don't like it then don't watch the video
@@dilan-hf9gdlol how 😂
@@mathamaticholic3738hes just a strupid white person. What else can yoh expect other than racism
@@dilan-hf9gdgo watch your cu*k p*rn little timmy
Another example of REGULATE YOURSELF BEFORE YOU GET REGULATED
Yeah. We’re at a point where there’s no way big companies are going to regulate themselves. I get the fear of regulation, but there’s a reason gambling is so regulated. The hammer MUST drop.
See movie rating and auditing system. Big companies can do it, they just usually won't@@dragonfire5568
Maybe you should realise it are regulations we need in many areas alone to survive. The current large nations in the free world increasingly are having politicians that have no morale or ethics but more and more resemble communist party committee members in their lack of daring to speak their mind.
Margrethe Vestager are the EU commissionaire that are behind the results against the tech firms.
A Microsoft based computer are today basically a client in a server/client relationship. VERY hard to understand why not one have come up with a store purchasable product based on modules coming from an entirely "from scratch" programming. Not only do we live in a technological "1984" version of reality online in relation to the tech companies and the intelligence services but people on top decides to pay for clocks, cars, phones etc that both monitors them 24/7 in real time but on top monetises that information through data brokers!
For the last 50+ years we have had more than enough insight into the consequences of what our current greenhouse gas emissions will do to our planet and its climate and still in 2023 fossil fuels are the most subsidised sector. It´s beyond insane considering the 4 stroke hydrogen car/truck/train/ship engine have been invented and works just as fine as those running on fossil fuels. The hydrogen jet engine are invented and yet the jet engine manufacturers and the airplane manufacturers do not make hydrogen based planes despite they would be lighter and/or have even longer range as well.
When it comes to USA....
As long as Americans have to register their political party before voting.
As long as Americans accept the US lobby laws, that judicially would be corruption in ANY EU nation.
As long as America keeps the anti democratic electoral college.
As longs as Americans accept you can redefine voter districts again and again between elections.
As long as Americans accept their media are owned by the same that donates heavily to political parties.
YOU will be screwed over and over again to the point where US human life´s have as little value as in Russia and China!
USA are amongst the nations that have a full set of icecores and thus its leaders have full knowledge of the consequences of climate change. YET USA (and similar leaders in Australia, Canada and UK) do not transition to a fossil fuel free energy production and usage. All mentioned nations have optimal conditions for raising offshore windmills for bulk production of electricity and green hydrogen, that EASILY can provide all the electricity and green fuels their nations need. AND it will be cheap and fast to raise. NOT a cost but an investment that would allow these nations to transition AND laugh all the way to the bank and still it does not happen. Democracy have broken down in these nations where Murdoch media have had significant market shares for a longer period. Media have broken down. Politicians have lost their way. Talking about self regulation when it comes to the fossil fuel industry, nuclear industry, military complex and not least the software industry are absurd nonsense. MORE regulation and oversight are needed if we are to survive ourselves as species.
It have never been a good strategy to bury your head in the sand when your house is on fire!
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us.
It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan
The EU single handedly protecting the entire tech community
Edit: the EU isn't the US, they don't abuse human rights at every step they can, just because they could POTENTIALLY in the future pass a law that goes against the will of the people doesn't mean it will. The EU has plenty of hurdles that make such a thing difficult.
"The Digital Services Act" Breaks Article 8 and 10 of the ECHR human rights laws. It also breaks UN human rights laws.
Article 8 "Correspondence" CSS Client-side scanning of communications software and services. ( pushing to ban private communications ). "Privacy" They've given themselves the legal right to install survaliance software on private devices without the users knowledge, seems currently aimed at journalists.
Article 10. "Freedom of expression" Censorship of on line services and speech. Including "Disinformation" take down requests and the blocking of legal websites.
They're also looking to make open source software illegal. Your comment is uneducated I'm afraid buddy.
Just don't look at their attempts to censor everything that isn't "approved" by their WEF overlords, like open source projects.
@@notjustforhackers4252 that will never happen, just because a law concept is presented that doesn't mean it's accepted
@@notjustforhackers4252 are you running around, copy-pasting same misleading and disinformation comment everywhere, despite being shown false? Saw same exact post yesterday on LTT, but I cant remember user name
@@netiturtle Prove that the statement is, as you say, false. Or are you just another EU shill that is going round copy-pasting same misleading and "disinformation" claiming this isn't true? I suggest you read both the "Digital services act" and ECHR, UN human rights laws before dismissing facts. Good lad.
Really hope this is implemented everywhere. Probably not till end of service for Windows 10…if ever :/
Change to Linux. Digital freedom is hard, but free.
@@thewhitefalcon8539 It's not only about the system, it's about having free software (the vision of the dangerous communists over at GNU). The thing is that proprietary software is still necessary for an awful amount of people, not to mention that desktop Linux sucks. It's frequent to have missing drivers and software distribution is a mess in desktop Linux. I would encourage trying out a top-rated Linux distribution too, and be happy if that was enough for them. But wouldn't expect everyone to stick around with it.
@@thewhitefalcon8539Some people can't afford to make the switch because they may be dependant on software that just doesn't work well on Linux
I hope WinAero does this to add it to everyone and that management policy allows schools and universities to do this anywhere
I miss windows 7
It's the "based" windows before they screw it up
I wonder if Microsoft’s windows setup will require connection to the internet as it does now. Because if it doesn’t it should be as easy as just setting your region to Europe during setup.
Personally I think this is fantastic news. Although it remains to be seen if that applies to the UK where I am.
7:42 read the last line at the bottom though
you don't have to wait on the mercy of EU, UK or Microsoft, to enjoy a privacy respecting OS, you know... ;)
@@moetocafego to LINUX
@@moetocafeyeah there are tools to disable telemetry ;)
The irony if the UK isn't given 'the good stuff'. in this case. (although I'm more of a Linux user, so good is very relative)
The UK really and truly fucked themselves by leaving the EU
Long story short, it's because their politicians have been blaming the EU for their corruption, flaws and mistakes since the very beginning.
So, now, the UK people are basically stuck in the house with their abusers after voting to lock the door. The EU has its issues, and they are many. But a lot of what the UK believed is straight up wrong and nonsensical.
Imagine your partner beats you and blames the neighbours for that, for decades. So, you go: "Fk the neighbours. I'm going to never talk to them again, we're going to lock everything down, and I'll trust you (the abusive partner), to stop the abuse!"
Guess what happened? Lol.
Leaving the EU wouldn't technically have been a problem if they could've made sure that they got politicians who weren't corrupt ideologues. Except, there wouldn't have been any point in leaving at all, if their politicians hadn't been corrupt ideologues, in the first place.
But whatever. It is what it is.
Bro this is such a good year, I was getting real tired of distributor-provided bloatware
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Good year? HAHA
In the Windows installer you can try the "Windows N" versions. These versions are specifically intended for the E.U. to comply with regulations. You will apparently need to install media codecs to make some apps and (I think more importantly) games function correctly.
CCCP codec pack has served me flawlessly for years.
Is that like normal windows without all the trash?
@@23GreyFox Windows N is a windows version which doesn't include programs which have free market competitors available. It was forced on Microsoft to stop Microsoft leveraging their monopoly in the OS market to push market share in areas like browsing, multimedia, etc.
It has never gained much adoption because it can be fiddly to use and requires more expertise from the end user, however it does remove a lot of trash but far from all of it, a lot of the trash included in Windows installs don't fall under the requirements upon MS which Windows N came out of and thus isn't removed.
@@NATIK001 Shit, sounds complicated and i'm no programmer.
While the EU does good things, they also have crazy ideas. Have you ever heard of Chat Control? They basically wanted to be able to search for any private message "to prevent child abuse"..... They also wanted to end the End to End encryption.
EU != UK
Jesus Christ never though I’d be rooting for EU politics, considering I’m American, but all these policy changes makes it seem like they have some-what competent, technical people in their government compared to the nursing home of a senate we have here. Don’t know about the rest of their politics but thank god they’re actually smacking these companies to be better. Sheesh.
FTC is so toothless that it only eats apple sauce
They're the same bureaucrats policing memes and shutting down accounts for "antidemocratic disinformation". Be very wary of who you call based these days.
@@EmancipatriotThey litteraly are. The US government is just a giant nursing home at this point. New blood isn't on the program it seems.
@@fakeplaystore7991 you have the same in the US anyway, where the US government doesn't touch with regulations it makes happen anyway by colluding with private companies in a "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" arrangement. Forget this notion of "based" bureaucrats, but it is better than having this shit into the law books because you have it anyway, either way and at least with the EU you can tell how stuff will go down in court because everything is regulated. You may say a lot of shit you like the US, but you go on saying certain things while working for someone else, especially some ESG listed company and you see how long you hold your job after that.
Brib... lobbying bit harder in EU as whole compared to individual country... Other technical aspect exist but this one alone is massive.
W EU coming in clutch
@DMONEYlNDUSTRYreal
I use the extension Custom User Agent String to effectively use my PC as a Chromecast and cast TH-cam from my phone to my non-smart TV (via the browser extension) to avoid annoying Chromecast ads (thanks to the ad-blocking extensions).
"Windows is an open platform" 😂😂😂
Thats the funniest joke microsoft has told us in years
I'm surprised by that change to not requiring a Microsoft Account for login. Mostly because I've had a local account on my Windows 10 box for years now, since 2018 or so. It was certainly a bit of a hassle to set up - Counterintutive things like turning off wifi before booting the computer, but all in all very worth it for the 10 min or so I spent avoiding the pit traps Microsoft sets up during setup.
A few years back I had these stupid screen locks on my Microsoft account because of my parents. So I made a new secret windows partition with a debloated windows version, and could use my computer without the lock, and on a local account.
Then I logged into the Xbox app thing to play a game and it completely overrid my local account and re-locked everything and I couldn't get it back. I was all sorts of pissed.
I hope that every version will be avaliable in every country.
I still remember how the windows "NT" version didn't have livetream codecs pre-installed because of a "anti-monopoly" regulation (or something) and it was an absolute horror to make viewing TH-cam livestreams on it.
These regulations sound good on paper but there is no telling if Microsoft is going to botch it so that you will be (ironically) better off with the original version.
they will probably try to come up with something similar to zuck's fuckery where instead of letting them make 10 cents off of you for your data, you can pay them 15 bucks every month
I've decided to start trying out linux instead once I buy a new computer. I think it is becoming alot closer to making windows obsolete for my needs.
2:26 A big 👎 for using a stereotypical Indian image.
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Who gives a fuck about your dislike?? Get lost streetshitter
@@dilan-hf9gdlol nobody street shits 😂
5:00 - AND M$ FORCED THIS ON ENTERPRISE USERS WITHOUT WARNING - This was such a pain in the arse to fix. Creating a Group Policy to undo this was unneeded and stupid.
I am dreading having to do the whole rufus thing to install windows 11 on my windows machine. Thank god I have a linux desktop and laptop to get by on for most of what I do these days.
It literally states on the bottom of the screen you showed, that they use the Region set in windows, with a warning that changing it will reset Windows.
So? Back up your data or just redownload everything. That's what I'm gonna do cuz I don't have critical files on my laptop. Everything remotely critical is backed up automatically in my case.
@AMD_Fan_98 I don't mean any disrespect when I say the following, I am always amazed by people like you, in my case I have no confidence in restoring everything back how it was. There used to be good programs that did a proper restore after install but I haven't seen a good one lately.
@@JakeSDN Yea no worries. All ive got on my laptop are a couple steam games and some other stuff and stuff like word docs for school are in the cloud but I understand you may have other stuff too. Might I suggest just cloning your hdd or use the built backup feature in Windows but idk. Cheers
@@AMD_Fan_98 I am running a Plex server, and it’s associated support servers(arrs), and some Docker stuff.
@@JakeSDN Yea definitely way beyond my scope lol
Respect the EU for standing up for consumers.
This is awesome, can't wait for the EU's next move on tech
Would be awesome if they told Samsung to let people get rid of all the bloat because their latest phones are insanely bloated, like tens of gigabytes of preinstalled garbage..
i doubt they can force the removal of pre-installed apps. at best they will force samsung to allow users to uninstall them.
@@mariuspuiu9555 Good enough
Unfortunately their next move is criminalization of encryption.
@@Noname72105 just a proposal, not yet voted because there is no consensus. it seems it is Spain who is pushing the hardest for this, but i seriously doubt we'll see a ban on end to end encryption. Germany for example is against it.
@@mariuspuiu9555 I didn't know my country was pushing that law. Fuck my government.
We need our own tech in the EU
It could have both advantages and disadvantages.
If there is a EU concurrent of Microsoft, they might bargain for concessions.
Sure, it would also come with many advantages, but it would be not a clear cut good advantages
"You're welcome"
- European Union
This is now a meme.
Margrethe Vestager are the EU commissionaire that are behind the results against the tech firms.
4:30 love how they phrase this. They tried to make it sound like they're adding this awesome and useful feature, so unsuspecting readers will be completely unaware that now, they're actually giving users the choice of NOT using the feature, as opposed to forcing them to use it like they used to.
By the way, you could skip that step during Windows 10/11 setup by simply disconnecting from the internet at the right time. I did it with my Win11 laptop 2 years ago. Though I've heard they've since made it harder to avoid in more recent updates.
Incredibly based move by EU to make Microsoft let users remove preloaded apps.
It's especially frustrating when companies ship their products with apps that are in the app stores, yet make it so they can't be uninstalled, like what was the case with the phone line-up my phone is from (Galaxy S20 series) and Netflix. It's available in the Play Store for downloading, yet it was forced upon me and everyone else with a phone from the same line-up and unable to be uninstalled. My only option was to uninstall updates and then disable it.
Maybe you should have mentioned Unofficial Tiny versions of the OS like Tiny10 , Tiny11 as bloat free versions by default and running fine on low endl devices.. keep up the good work :)
those aren't really great for daily driving as you can run into issues (they removed a bit too much to maintain full compatibility).
@@mariuspuiu9555 Exactly, those sunday "hackers" don't know what they're doing most of the time, creating an unnecessary strain on tech support (it makes some money for said techies, but it's mostly stupid shit and there are better things to do). Finally, as demonstrated above, there is only one way of making corporation comply with consumer protection - bringing down the LAW upon them.
@@mariuspuiu9555 if ur not a super user it's just fine :)
last time I tried Tiny10 and Tiny11 I had hundreds of issues
for context I am a programmer both in profession and hobby
Now do the same for android, please. Also, enable root access by default.
This. It's infuriating to me that I can't have root access on a device that I paid for and own. I could give a shit less how "dangerous" and "insecure" the manufacturer and carrier claim it is. It's of no consequence as the device doesn't belong to them. They can fuck right on off.
Root is pointless for 99.9% of people because they don't need it. They aren't tech-savvy. Enabling root access by default is stupid and an unnecessary security risk. That being said, I do agree that companies shouldn't prevent you from having root access if you need it.
@@dudebroguymate
That's what I'm saying, genius. "Enabled", not "active". Basically, giving the owner the option to turn on root without needing to hack his own device via usb and voiding the warranty.
Root is valuable for everyone, if only to remove bloatware or install apps that require it.
In regard to 99% not being tech-savvy: That is a manufactured issue, caused by nanny-tech that is constantly reducing functionality and taking agency away from the user. The first step needed for more people to know their way around technology is to give them access to it and let them learn.
Helpful advice for anyone in the US interested in this:
1 If you choose Ireland you're just one more user with language settings set to "English" that won't stick out like a sour thumb.
2 If you care to set a fake address, consider choosing:
- Co. Waterford (Port Lairge). There's a townland called "Burgery" (Burgáiste). Close as I could get to writing BURGER on the form and having it point to an actual place.
- Co. Kerry (Ciarraí). There's a townland called "Mucra", which is as close as I could find to MURRICA.
I hope this helps.
2:27 "people who develop applications" - shows a stereotypical indian
casual racism at its peak
If it's true, it's aint racism
that is wild that you cant uninstall certain apps on windows.
Yes it is and I hope they do the same for Android and Mac OS.
@@acidcharonthey will for the "gatekeepers", so yeah, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, etc
Problem with these apps lies in a different spot. Microsoft made these programs pretty much integral part of the OS. If you uninstall Edge or few other things, OS may go corrupt after some time, happened few times already for me.
That's true, and MS will have to revert those changes.
I eventually renamed all of the system files for edge. The only issue I have now is that I have an icon in the bottom of my screen telling me that I'm online but internet is not available, when clearly I'm connected to the internet.
Thanks to me as per being part of blue team in Ms for endpoint...I brought new level of solving issues mainly for eu, Africa, part of Asia...
EU should actually get involved a little bit more in this. Windows 7 was the last Windows to be actually user-oriented. No telemetry, no unnecessary bloatware. And it worked just fine. Windows 8/8.1 was the last stable Windows in my eyes. It had a lot of Microsoft's bloatware (you could uninstall things though, also set the windows update properly), but it was really decent at consuming resources properly, also later versions of 8 and starting from 8.1 gave you the automatic updates for your hardware (GPU, sound, basically all of the drivers), which we also have today in W10 and 11. The TPM requirement is also ridiculous, since it only really affects performance on the older CPU's (anything that's below 6th gen Intel, for example). Also, you can install the last version of Photoshop on Windows 8.1 if you know how to tweak the installer a bit, but Adobe normally restricted you to do so, by manually introducing a restriction on the OS version.
Didn't we have this exact issue already when Microsoft first started shipping IE with Windows? Don't know if there was an EU case as well, but there definitely was a US antitrust case about this.
Yes, Microsoft have been forced to create Windows N for Windows already which unbundled some things. However Windows N was an antitrust situation where Microsoft was seen to leverage a monopoly in one area to unfairly gain marketshare in another.
This is not the same deal as this sets wider standards for how platforms need to work rather than targeting specifically Microsoft due to their monopoly position. The case which spawned Windows N had no effect on Apple's OSX or IOS whereas the Digital Markets Act is about everyone opening up their platforms to fair competition and letting users take control.
Now the EU just needs to ban bloat ware from Apple and Android devices.
Note that even with a VPN, a computer still has a local network IP that the VPN tunnels through. And reverse geo-mapping will tell what country that IP terminates in.
So a networked desktop machine will still reveal where it's running even without a GPS and with the VPN active.
For years I was against the EU project. But when they take on big corporations like Apple and Microsoft I am beginning to change my mind. I hope they will be able to stop Monsanto's poison also
probaganda works.
most of the cancerous shit that amerisharts shovel down their throats every day is already restricted or outright banned in the EU
Look up the Marvel Project, funded by the EU. Change your mind right back.
@@plebisMaximus They'll stop Corporations from violating your privacy unless they can profit from it.
@@praetoriancorps Profits are secondary, they just want exclusive rights to your body, mind and soul.
Yayyy finally the EU cracks down!
Reported the video for hate and racism.
The workaround for the Microsoft Account during Windows install is easy: Don't connect to the internet during early install. After you get to the account creation step, if you "don't have internet" it allows Local Account creation. Then you hook up the internet and continue as usual.
Only works in 10 as far as I know. The no Internet option isn't available in 11
Public Service Announcement: Don't uninstall Edge before having installed another browser. It's kinda hard to download a browser without being able to view websites.
(Back in the Win9x days, it _was_ possible to uninstall Internet Explorer and run into this exact problem.)
Technically you could download any file with the command line.
WinGet install from command prompt; MS has finally recognised the wisdom of having a package repository and package manager.
So one problem I see with this is the implementation of some apps that use dialogs for SSO. Those SSO Windows are an instance of Edge, and removing Edge from windows breaks the core functionality regardless of if you have another browser installed.
Not that I'm complaining, this is a good thing and will likely lead to the necessary changes to fix this issue, but its something we should keep an eye on.
If that's the case, it seems like a pretty stupid implementation. Are you sure they aren't just using some sort of "system webview" for those things?
They will probably just use Edge WebView2, this comes installed already
In the blog it does state when you are setting up Windows and you choose a country in the EU then you will have the changes. So, you can just set up as a country in the EU and when you are done switch the location/time to whatever country you are in.
Reported
Thanks But i'm still running Linux.
Since Linux became stable enough I have wondered why there have not been one deciding to bundle a yearly version and provide it with manual and a guarantee based on own SW testing of the bundled. You could still make a homepage people could look at for updates if backdoors/snags/compability issues should emerge.
OR someone deciding to make a "from scratch" programming of a new control system based on a promise to not monetise data nor snoop in general. One thing are the intelligence services monitoring but the monetisation of peoples actions on a control system they bough and paid for truly are insane. That our politicians allow it says as much about us as voters, as of them as humans.
00:29 🖥 Microsoft's compelled to allow uninstallation of default Windows apps in the EU market, including Edge, Bing, Cortana, and more, reducing bloat and granting users more control.
01:39 🌐 Changes in Windows layout with clearer labels for system components differentiate them from random internet search results.
02:18 🛠 New options like feeds and web search customization might benefit app developers, potentially affecting user experience.
03:30 💻 EU users can choose to sync Windows with a Microsoft account, addressing a long-standing issue of forced Microsoft account integration.
04:51 🔄 Default app settings may still prompt Microsoft products to open under certain circumstances, even when another app is set as default.
05:47 🤔 Questions arise about potential methods for non-EU users to access these privacy and user benefits by tricking Windows into thinking their location is within the EU.
08:09 🌍 The possibility of circumventing region-based restrictions by altering system settings or utilizing activation scripts is anticipated, potentially extending these benefits beyond the EU.
I was able to uninstall these apps in the US. Thank you for the great news
I hope you realize that the image used in 2:25 is racist against us Indians. Been a long time viewer of your channel, I now feel let down by your choices of images and the surrounding commentary. Please take that clip out of the video.
This same guy made a video on Kashmir saying the Indian govt is evil and India doesnt suffer from terrorism
@@aman.vashisht Is he Muslim? The obvious hate boner for Indians, the scruffy, unkempt beard, and now this Kashmir take. Like, there is no way in the universe he's not a Muslim.
lol grow a pair