I just touched Windows 11 for the first time today.
The Start bar has a Widgets corner, which includes a helpful weather display but is 99% infinite news scroll.
I opened Edge to download something else, and was greeted with more news and crap.
Don’t get me wrong, Firefox is better than Edge. But Edge is the worst of the bunch by far.
Despite its reputation, Chrome looks and feels like, and in some ways is, a lighter browser. No news feed. No AI chatbot. I get that they can afford it, but the difference is still painfully palpable.
Sponsored suggestions in the address bar and advertisement telemetry are upcoming additions, but yeah, this stuff in this post has been here for a while. Every installation requires you remove it again.