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Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by alanh »

canistr wrote: post #76
aresant wrote: post #44

It's so funny to watch MSFT completely miss the lessons that have turned Google into the World's Most Valuable Advertising Business. HEY YOU GUYS LETS PLASTER ADVERTISING ALL OVER ALL OF THE THINGS! Look at Gmail: http://imgur.com/M8RF1TV Look at Yahoo Mail: http://imgur.com/Cjwxspc Look at AOL Mail: http://imgur.com/ZeaIe1L Which email product do you use? Which would you rather use? The advertising business that is…

Eh. I don't use Gmail because their login page is ad-free. I use it because my workflow is better. I was expecting your screenshot to show the minimized amount of ads within the inbox. But you could argue that Outlook is reasonably minimal, Gmail is only text, and Yahoo/AOL are panelled ads.

You don’t see how advertising is a drag on workflow? It shows you down and takes brain cycles.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by cmdrfred »

plaguuuuuu wrote: post #286
cmdrfred wrote: post #276

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have found that a lot of the audio editing software you can get away with quite low specs. I record my podcasts on a 8 year old laptop running Windows XP. It rarely connects to the internet and I record to a thumb drive that is backed up so there is nothing to lose on it. In this particular case something similar might be the best option. For pod-casting anything over 2 or 3 ms in my headphones throws me off my gam…

Unlike podcasts, music recording and mixing is extremely CPU intensive. Especially if you run a lot of analog simulating synths and stuff.

I stand corrected.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by Coincoin »

nikbackm wrote: post #35

That particular example does not seem too bad. I personally would have just assumed the ad to be yet another random lock screen image. Which I like for the most part.

Yeah, by the author's standard, any nice picture would be an ad for the photographer.

Pretty picture of a New Zeeland countryside? Ad for NZ tourism office.

Pretty picture of a data center chockfull of network equipment and mainframes? Ad for IBM and Cisco.

Microsoft have been doing that since Bing, show a pretty interesting picture with a little icon to know where that picture is from. It just happens that one is from a game.

People are so tired of obnoxious and disgusting ads that they tend to forget why they hate obnoxious and disgusting ads; because they are obnoxious and disgusting. Then they go on an irrational crusade about every picture, awesome viral video, mystery public campaign just because it originates from a corporation.

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Post by mynameisvlad »

r00fus wrote: post #142
api wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People want free. Things aren't free. But people want free, so let's give them "free" and monetize them indirectly with surveillance, invasive advertising, etc. The entire Internet has gone down this road since it's very hard to compete with someone who is giving something away for "free" (note quotes). Free has given us George Orwell's bidirectional it-watches-you TV set.

I want a fully supported OS that will see upgrades. I'm willing to pay. I guess that means OSX or Linux for the forseeable future. I used to think PCs that were sold had some vendor bloatware, but now the OS itself is bloatware. Were Stallman & Torvalds simply precient for their viewpoints 20+ years ago?

What's the difference between OSX and Windows, in your mind? It's even more "free" than Windows is, since you can't buy it separately and all OS updates for the last few versions have been free.

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Post by CamperBob2 »

exodust wrote: post #107
jfoster wrote: post #70

Seems like the "new Microsoft" honeymoon period has been brought to an abrupt end. Did every single Windows 7 user get this? Perhaps they can recover from this by learning quickly from the backlash that's about to happen.

Backlash from needing to go into settings and flick a toggle switch from on to off? Oh the horror!

Just curious, where is the "toggle switch" in the "settings" that I can turn "off" to disable GWX?

Oh, there isn't one?

I thought so.

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Post by andrei_says_ »

strommen wrote: post #200
gargravarr wrote: post #6

Seems like the only way people want to make money these days is through invasive advertising without the end-user's explicit consent. Granted the expectation of free software is driving most of this, but it starts a vicious cycle because those who get annoyed with them develop countermeasures, which the creator responds to with more aggressive ads, ad infinitum. It does start explaining some of the highly controversi…

Isn't pretty much all advertising everywhere "without the end-user's explicit consent"? Websites, TV, radio, print media, billboards, sides of buses, posters in public bathrooms, Disney-branded kids' food at the grocery store, product placements embedded in actual Hollywood movies, desktop search in freakin' Ubuntu... I didn't sign up for seeing ads in any of these. They're just an implicit part of the social contrac…

I don't remember signing such a contract. So I would say these are not consensual

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Post by marssaxman »

treehau5 wrote: post #178
dangrossman wrote: post #84

Microsoft added the Spotlight feature last year, and this is pretty much exactly what it was billed as: if you don't have a lock screen image of your own, you get random wallpaper images from Bing, and also occasional app offers and tips. You can upvote/downvote the offers to personalize the suggestions in the future. It's an app discovery mechanism, and you can turn it off by picking your own lock screen image. I do…

Amazon Kindle does the exact same thing with their "Special Offers"

Which means that Amazon should be excoriated for their misbehavior as well as Microsoft, yes...?

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by recursive »

proactivesvcs wrote: post #285
recursive wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your opinion, what is malware?

Microsoft's advertising. Specifically, those they choose to do business with allowing exploit kits to deliver malware payload, such as cryptolocker-style viruses.

So you're assuming that the channel this tomb raider wallpaper came through is able to transmit a virus? Or do you have knowledge that it's true?
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