Autopilot and Pro have absolutely no tie other than Pro being a requirement to leverage the enterprise feature

Further, Microsoft has a support queue specifically for requesting removal if you can produce purchasing paperwork

… Not that anyone with technical chops should care. This will only ever impact you at OOBE, which is easily bypassed

Yes. If that’s not for you, that’s fine! If that isn’t a dealbreaker, it’s an exceptional platform

Yes, there was an incident where ~1k people received push notifications that were intended for other accounts

Shitty, but they addressed the issue within 24hr, notified impacted users, and published a sitrep. They handled it extremely well imo, but also you could disable the cloud connection if it concerns you

https://community.ui.com/questions/Bug-Fix-Cloud-Access-Misconfiguration/fe8d4479-e187-4471-bf95-b2799183ceb7?ref=404media.co

UniFi Protect is outstanding. You need to buy one of their NVRs or cloud gateways to use it, but it’s incredible & wouldn’t want another system for our house/family business

I was going to say, currently working in K12 & this key would be a nightmare for us. We definitely can’t pay Microsoft’s minimums - disabling/remapping the key wouldn’t be hard, but it’s obnoxious it becomes a priority.

I’m sure some people will swap, but nah no way it’s a meaningful loss

Ad blockers will still exist too, they just won’t be as effective. If the layman installs an ad blocker and gets one less ad, they won’t question it further

Haha holy shit, the Canada Computers statement that photos weren’t accessed inappropriately & that the employee in question was disciplined, shortly followed by a picture of the technician outright copying only these files to the USB drive. These people are scum

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I have no idea how i’d replace YouTube in my life - sites like Reddit are one thing, but there is no current viable analogue to YouTube. Premium is pretty cheap for what it is - happy I made the decision to subscribe years ago