And Windows laptops are such a commodity business that prices are incredibly low. So PC makers load ‘em up with junk because they get paid for those deals.

They are more incentivized by that than the few lost sales from people who know better to look for low crud machines.

And on more expensive machines they’d just be leaving money on the table. So they still often ship bundled crud.

Similar to spyware on TVs. Margins are razor thin. They’re going to make them up somewhere.