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Re:Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs by dgellow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @05:14PM (#29642760)
> On Windows you are always an update away from […] news, the weather, advertisements popping up […]

Block msn.com at the DNS level. That removes almost all of these annoying bugware.

I have a bunch of these rules as part of my pihole blacklist, that works surprisingly well. Adding msn to it was really a visible change when using windows.

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Re:Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs by DancesWTurtles on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @07:15PM (#29643823)
What do you know, I tried, and found it to be impossible. You cannot block msn.com at the DNS level, not inside Windows anyway. It's been discussed and everything:

https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2006/Apr/509 [RE: Microsoft DNS resolver: deliberately sabotaged hosts-file lookup]

So the only answer is, as pointed out, a pihole or similar outside approach.

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Re:Moral lessons from free software and GNU Emacs by dgellow on Tuesday December 21, 2021 @10:31PM (#29645320)
Wow, that’s next level evil. I didn’t know.
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