MS Paint and then they need to skip it

Great detective work. With regards to Microsoft being ... uhm ... "transparent": I don't think completely solving this sort of problem is even possible. RedStar OS (North Korea linux) already did this 10 years ago. Nice to see the actual game. A Play button would have been nice.

Until proven otherwise via open-source audits and reproducible binaries, you should assume that all commercial photo editing software is embedding watermarks in any way they can get a cut from? The example shown at the top is really bad. “Before (Without the delay of 200ms)” shows obvious delay in appearance. I think this is a good way to discourage people from making slop. Interesting find. Overall it makes sense to actually try to guess what the actual word is and then figure out which words you should guess in order to avoid it. It took me a minute to find out that I needed to close the instructions to see the west catching up. A friend put me onto The Cuckoo's Egg, and that's where I shop. Sure, if you need an API, or if you want to open a folder and it asks permission to Microsoft.