It's so desperate.

Sailing the high seas for an enterprise edition, combined with https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

The above is my solution until taking the other advice on this thread and transitioning to Linux. Only thing holding me back there is gaming (which already works great for most people, I had trouble with my GPU). There are so many things about Linux that are just better than Windows now, and a high number of use cases these days are met with Firefox and libre office.

Fuck windows. I use Linux and sometimes I do need Windows for certain things, but I just take the long route and figure it out on Linux, just so I don't have to deal with Microsoft and their bullshit

Straight up the same playbook that other entities used in the past to get your grandma to install unwanted search bars in internet explorer. No wonder Windows Defender is so advanced, Microsoft has a lot of experience as the developer of the most popular malware in the world.

Maybe have a look at the tool from 0&0 called "shut up windows 10"

My suggestion is to download something like Windows Privacy Dashboard and disabling/uninstalling as much telemetry options as possible.

I've never got that kind of ad push, so i have to ask where you got it? Was it from using the search bar beside the start button? If so, maybe completely disabling and uninstalling Cortana might fix it.

Using GNU/Linux instead

use a service like o&o shutup that'll cripple this among other bloat.

The comments are weird. How often do you even see this? I feel like I remember it once and hit don't switch and thats it. Not sure why you keep getting it, but I also don't use edge so maybe that is why. I would imagine if there is a way to stop it it's in settings somewhere or possibly a local group policy maybe.

Wait, you had this WHILE using chrome on win10? Jesus

But I actually prefer Bing over Google nowadays...

Also, at least they pay me for my data.

Just install Debnyan. >:3c

Write a complaint to the CMA about Microsoft’s anti-competitive and anti-consumer behavior.

Bing has honestly been a lot better for me than google. I refused to use it for so long because it was just a joke when it first came out. But I started not being able to find any decent search results on google and the entire first page is now ads versus just the first few results. Bing also has an AI thing that will just give you a straight answer to a question and links to where it found it. I'd say to give it a try.

Stop using Chrome.