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Cortana Popup Adverts In Action Centre Since Update
Recently I've been having a lot of windows 10 auto updates, (presumably this 'anniversary update' thing).
Today, whilst minding my own business perusing one of my regular forum pages (in firefox), I had an advert popup in my action centre which opened with the line 'looking for something tasty?.... I can help you with that … blah blah '. It was a cortana thing, and when I clicked, it opened the edge browser on a page loaded with local takeaways. Unrelated to what I was looking at and unsolicited.
This is fresh off the back of the now daily popups from my antivirus (I changed from AVG to Avast but it’s the same on both ( but at least spamming me about their own product!)
Anyway, I did a quick search and notice on another page, microsoft has also removed the ability to disable cortana easily in it's local settings in these new updates, which altogether seems a bit insidious.
Seriously, is this the future?
If anyone's come across this and has an idea of the specific code of the update responsible I'd be grateful to know.
Thanks