How to completely remove Copilot from Edge?

On every new tab copilot still has an active icon to open copilot. I have done every procedure to remove this annoying app including deleting every occurrence of it in my registry, there are some entries that will not permit me to delete them. Microsoft should never install any new apps or software without express permission from users, they should give the users an option to not install a certain new app or software.

Anything but Edge. Alas you can't uninstall it as it will keep putting the damn thing back with factory settings - same tactics as a patch upgrade that suddenly brings everything back into play that you've spent hours neutering before. They know they're doing it. The question is why?

The answer is advertising revenue. You'll get a warning that if you click on an advertised service in Edge and it leads to you buying the product, M$ gets commission. And you know they're tracking that from click to delivery. With RECALL, they'll soon be able to screenshot the evidence as well just in case you managed to limit their telemetry capture.

And as for Teams and Outlook. They are now defaulting to Edge when you click on a link from within those products.

This is no longer about providing you with computing and choice. This is controlling behaviour.

Guess it's time for a new browser then.....

Maybe when we all quit using Edge they'll get the idea?

Let's see if ISO 42001 has any effect on the behaviour of AI services and data interaction. (ISO/IEC 42001:2023Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Management system https://www.iso.org/standard/81230.html  if anyone is interested)

Hopefully IBM's data governance for AI tooling will start to show people just how AI can breach access boundaries when it is allowed to suck in data from all sources. Do you know if your LLM is just looking at your HR data or is it also teaching itself about the finance system linked to employee's banking details?

Seriously, all the suppliers need to make AI an opt-in service as part of their data privacy controls. After all, there is no data privacy if you can't say no to the data being collected or the way it is processed, and then disseminated via an AI learning assimilation.

I wonder how you invoke the 'right to be forgotten' once AI has learnt about you? Would that be a GDPR breach happening right there? What's 4% of M$ annual turnover? Wow, now THAT would be a significant fine.

Yes. All are in the AI race. Unfortunately NOT ONE OF THOSE FORCING THIS ON USERS actually has a truly functioning AI capability. They all jumped the gun and now false and incomplete information is being treated as truth. It’s a mess