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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:43:43 -0000 (UTC)
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On 16 Mar 2024 10:44:37 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote
in <65f57815$0$5295$426a34cc@news.free.fr>:

> Le 13-03-2024, Physfitfreak <Physfitfreak@gmail.com> a écrit :
>> On 3/11/2024 11:54 PM, favask wrote:
>>> 
>>> You can check it yourself: there are plenty of traffic monitors
>>> around.
>>> Run them and see where the traffic goes.
>>
>> The culprit is not there for you to see anytime you want.
> 
> It is. You just have to learn how to do it.
> 
>> For instance, this Edge, I have had two occasions which I ran task
>> manager to make sure it wasn't running, but almost right after, when I
>> ran the Ccleaner garbage cleaner it told me "Edge needs to be closed
>> before it could run". Then right away, I'd go back to task manager and
>> would see Edge running there! Two times.
> 
> So you have a way to see it. Now, you have to learn how to stop starting
> it on your computer.
> 
>> And tens and tens of other times I got the same message from Ccleaner
>> but didn't check the task manager to see Edge was running. Just had
>> Cleaner itself close the Edge.
> 
> Once again, you see it, you close it. You just have to prevent it to be
> launched again.
> 
>> This is after I had done everything to get rid of Edge.
> 
> Evidently, you didn't. Or it wouldn't run on your computer.
> 
>> I even delete every "Edge" folder on my computer every time they appear
>> by themselves.
> 
> It looks it's not enough.
> 
>> This is abuse.
> 
> This is Windows. You get what you want. On my computer there is nothing
> I don't want.
> 
>> This is what "America Online" was doing to computers.
> 
> You choose to use it, you get it.
> 
>> You couldn't get rid of it.
> 
> YOU can't get rid of Edge. I can. It's not about general possibilities,
> it's about your personal way of doing things.

So that's an advantage of Linux:  you don't have to fight to uninstall
Edge, because you don't have to install it in the first place.

-- 
-v