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Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by alistproducer2 »

YSFEJ4SWJUVU6 wrote: post #25
chc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This works well if your hobbies include manually editing obscure config files and replacing perfectly good hardware, and if your hobbies do not include playing games. I frequently explore the possibility of switching to Linux, and while it's not the garbage fire it was 15 years ago, it's still just not a peer to Windows for the way I use my computer.

I really can't underline how stupid you make yourself sound by writing that utter toss, so I simply conclude that I very much doubt you have any idea what Linux was like 15 years ago – considering that you have no idea what it's like now – so why refer to that at all?

This is a terrible comment. The OP makes valid points. I run Linux on several boxes and have been a user for years and I still have trouble dealing with it sometimes. For all its faults, Windows just works.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by cutler »

coldtea wrote: post #37
grawlinson wrote: post #2

Here's a better idea - show Microsoft that you don't accept this type of behaviour by switching products/services. I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.

> I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs. That would make sense if the benefits were more than the costs. Which, for the average people, aren't. Just the hassle of using a new interface, much less one that needs more admin work like Linux, i…

Linux sometimes isn't even compatible with standard open source software. Recently I installed Lubuntu LTS on a 5-year-old Celeron laptop and was dismayed to see LibreOffice with clunky grey window borders looking like a 1998 Java applet. The menu bar was also blacked-out. The owner was not impressed.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by ericd »

pikzen wrote: post #48
pmiller2 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? I've never seen that. Is it under GNOME in the default install?

It was in one of Ubuntu's releases, 16.04 I believe? Unity included Amazon results in its search results. EDIT: 12.04. Time flies. Memory sucks.

I'm using 16.04 right now, how does one trigger those? I've never seen them.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by pikzen »

ericd wrote: post #54
pikzen wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was in one of Ubuntu's releases, 16.04 I believe? Unity included Amazon results in its search results. EDIT: 12.04. Time flies. Memory sucks.

I'm using 16.04 right now, how does one trigger those? I've never seen them.

I was wrong, it was actually in the 12.04 days. Didn't remember it to be so long ago. I believe it's disabled by default in newer releases.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2840401/ubuntus-unity-8-deskt...

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by Klathmon »

besselheim wrote: post #43

Doesn't seem that big a deal, it's an upsell for Microsoft's own file synchronization services, not some third party ad. And you can easily disable it.

It's amazing how much this story has blown up, along with the "Google home has ads" story.

In both cases they seem almost insane how many people are up in arms about this. It's them pushing a service of theirs in their os.

Apple does it, Google does it, Ubuntu does it, everyone does it. And it's such a non issue. They are promoting a service that is very tied in to the OS that a lot of people want and don't know exist.

Maybe I'm the weird one, but it just seems like a hit piece when so many websites started reporting on this so hard and it's not even a big deal to me...

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by [deleted] »

netsharc wrote: post #19
amaks wrote: post #5

Interesting. Chromebooks are cheaper and ChromeOS doesn't shove ads to users' faces. Who's scroogled now?

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Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by Keverw »

Are the ads only for storage service? At first I was thinking we'd start seeing banner ads like we do on blogs. If it's only Microsoft pushing their own integrated services I don't really have much of a problem, but for software I paid for showing third party ads when I never ever had an expectation of such a thing then I do agree it is very horrible.

The "Not now" button does seem like a anti-pattern instead of a simple no. Reminds me on how iOS apps bug you over and over again to rate them. I assume in X amount of time, it would show the banner again? I think it should be like "Learn More" or "Dismiss". Then have Dismiss never show it again on that device(unless they did like a reinstall of the OS). I'm sure it's useful to know it's available, especially to non tech people but you shouldn't have to jump into a long list of settings to stop it.

Imagine some day your car dashboard updates and starts showing banner ads for deals at near by places when the car never did it in the first place. That'd be kinda creepy too.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by [deleted] »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #16
userbinator wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's why the parent put "free" in quotes. Unlike all the previous versions of Windows, MSFT decided to make this upgrade "free" for a while, but AFAIK it's still ridiculously easy to pirate Win10, and the "accessibility technologies" free upgrade loophole, which was said to be closing "very soon" many months ago, is still open. In other words, if you really don't want to pay, Microsoft still seems desperate to get…

> As a mass-exodus to Linux and macOS curretly seems unlikely, their strategy appears to be winning so far. ... or people just install windows 7 / avoid upgrading to 10. Hard to call that a "win" Take everything with a grain of salt, but metrics still point to Windows 7 dominance: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de... https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...

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Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by dws »

dc3k wrote: post #40
grawlinson wrote: post #2

Here's a better idea - show Microsoft that you don't accept this type of behaviour by switching products/services. I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.

> trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs. Last time I used Linux (well, Ubuntu specifically) every time I searched for anything in the file system I would see at least half a dozen ads for products on Amazon. Significantly worse than anything I've ever seen in Windows 10 personally. Uni…

I found it fairly easy to turn those off. YMapparentlyV'd.
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