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Because Windows Machine bought in normal computer store is filled with crap trial ware. It is like that because that's how the shop / computer manufacture is making money. The first thing you should do when buying a windows computer is to nuke the installation by clean installing windows from USB using a media downloaded directly from Microsoft.

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When I see a security-focused channel talking about a "Clean laptop" with "nothing installed," I assume they have wiped it and installed Windows 11 with an ISO. I mean, otherwise these results would seem perfectly ordinary and wouldn't be raising an alarm.

They have not wiped it. 15 seconds into the video they say "What happens when you buy a new laptop and open it for the first time". Not many seconds later they show that the computer makes request to google and has McAfee installed. I am sorry, but the first thing a clean windows devices does is not to make requests to google and it will not have 3rd party anti virus installed.

I mean c'mon now, McAfee? It's pre-loaded crapware. If anything was freshly installed it's going to be a fresh copy of Dell Windows Recovery Media.

> Many third-party services were present as well, as Windows 11 had seemingly important things to say to the likes of Steam, McAfee, and Comscore ScorecardResearch.com, which is a market research effort that "studies and reports on Internet trends and behavior."

Much better: format the disk and instal OS that actually respects your provacy and digital freedom and is open source: install GNU/Linux

Why is this getting downvoted? Sounds correct.

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