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Looks like none of the Win10 privacy settings change the default 3rd party apps

Posted on December 30, 2017 at 16:21 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

Instead, it looks like your location makes all the difference. There’s even a report that Winzip is installed if you say that your location is China. Candy Crush Saga? I dunno.

Interesting observations being pursued by Will Dormann, Kevin Beaumont and Haifei Li on Twitter.

(Open question, inspired by @GossiTheDog – what if the government of China wants Microsoft to install a specific third party app on every machine purporting to be in China?)

Follow it here (even if you don’t Twitter).

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