“(!Trick) && Treat” is probably the binding they meant

Does anyone know if the EU protects against this? I am in Europe (well Switzerland, so technically not EU, but GDPR etc. nonetheless) and using windows 11 as my daily driver on two machines (one with beta) I have never seen ads.

EDIT: except for the ‘finish setting up’ stuff after bigger updates, those I do get.

SPORE - I miss that game