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You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe (www.ghacks.net)
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[โ€“] icedterminal@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On macOS it's always been possible to remove built in apps. To do so now though requires disabling SIP and mounting as R/W. Then you can use something like this to remove all traces https://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

[โ€“] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago

They regenerate after an update, there is also a way to remove Edge on Windows by manually running the uninstaller from the terminal with some options, but that doesn't change the fact that it's not easy and you can't just uninstall it like any other app.