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Yep. I tolerated Edge reinstalling itself for a long time. I used 3rd party tools to try to make Windows my own, but they failed repeatedly.
If MS would sell me a license to own my computer, I would buy it, but they don't offer that. Instead it's ads and spam and data collection. And I want nothing to do with that.
I kind of feel like that about Google's services (to a lesser extent). Like, Google produces some really outstanding services. YouTube is great, and I'd have no problem with paying for it. But I have no idea whether, if I buy YouTube Premium or whatever Google calls it, I can buy privacy or whether it's just going to mean that they can link my data to my financial information and carry on data-mining.
I mean theoretically you don't have to pay for anything, just disable it in your account settings, but I don't believe any of that for a single second.