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		Semaphor on May 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems

SomeStupidPoint on May 11, 2017 [–]

I agree that it's all in the settings, but I also had to turn off Cortana making suggestions in 3 different spots.

MS definitely didn't make it easy to get it to stop harassing you.

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