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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by Semaphor on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#14317819)
It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems
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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by SomeStupidPoint on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:41PM (#14317955)
I agree that it's all in the settings, but I also had to turn off Cortana making suggestions in 3 different spots.

MS definitely didn't make it easy to get it to stop harassing you.

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