It's change for the sake of change. Features unrelated to the cloud, like Notepad, Calculator, Control Panel, context menus, and now File Explorer, are constantly being tweaked and nerfed.
Phone numbers and emails are bought and sold. Some entities sell premium lists filtered by unresponsive numbers. Texting "STOP" or answering calls can signal activity and lead to more spam.
Enable "Do Not Disturb" or its equivalent with your provider to make contacting you costlier and reduce spam. Then, manually block every number that contacts you.
> for the first time in a century there is more money to be made in weakening copyright rather than strengthening it
Nope. The law will side with whoever pays the most. Once OpenAI solidifies its top position, only then will regulations kick in. Take YouTube, for example—it grew thanks to piracy. Now, as the leader, ContentID and DMCA rules work in its favor, blocking competition. If TikTok wasn’t a copyright-ignoring Chinese company, it would’ve been dead on arrival.
We're already seeing it in things like Google buying rights to Reddit data for training. It's already happening. Only companies who can afford to pay will be building AI, so Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc.
If they want to do research they probably prefer no AV. That said there are some no-op AV's that are specifically for tricking defender to shut off and not actually do anything
I was just wondering if a no-op AV might work! But I thought perhaps not, as I thought Microsoft insisted on AVs running as PP/PPL (Protected Process / Protected Process Light), which isn't realistic for OSS.
Are you able to point to one please? Would love to try it and see if it works!
Yes. Current versions of Defender won’t disable scanning even if another anti virus is installed. At most, it will stop reporting infections. The CPU overhead however cannot be avoided by normal means.
Microsoft Dev Drive exists purely as a workaround to this self-imposed problem.