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Get Linux for free, still don't get ads.
Not true [1]. Ubuntu is full of recommendations for non-free / malicious "snaps" and has telemetry (opt out + remove a few packages). [1] https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...
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It's odd to me that so many people seem to dislike this comment. My experience with MacOS has gotten more and more negative with each update. I upgraded to Mojave a few weeks ago (because the OS would not stop nagging me to) and I've had nothing but problems since.
I've not seen a single nag to upgrade to Mojave. I'm still on Sierra (and will likely move to High Sierra this weekend - I like to stay a major version behind for Mac software for stability's sake on my Mac Mini).
Not happening. https://twitter.com/fxshaw/status/1063518498104664064
"The trial balloon revealed too much backlash, we're going to pretend we never had to plan to roll it out universally."
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hosts-file blocking of microsoft servers I don't think that works, I'm pretty sure the networking stack bypasses the hosts file for Microsoft sites because it's a potential vulnerability.
Why do you believe that?
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I beg to disagree. I remember a golden age when cable tv was known to be better because it didn’t have any ads. Slowly they became as ad infested as open channels.
What are you talking about? cable TV has always had ads in the very beginning in the 1950s and 60s on through the 1970s when the first cable TV stations came out.
Soon it will be two, then three, then.... The same thing happened to "previews" when you go to the movies.
Slight tangent, but @jammygit mentioned in this thread: > "All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden....Is my money not good enough for them? Can someone elaborate a bit on this idea? Are we at a point where there is something more valuable than money itself? Data? Is this the point where Google et al can say "Nah, we actuall…
All I want is to be able to give companies my money in exchange for not being spied on, manipulated, or locked into some walled garden. I can't for my OS - I have to use free gnu/Linux because everyone else treats me like crap. Is my money not good enough for them? This is getting absurd
The money you would likely pay would be less than what they can make by selling you ads (as a whole). If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.
Let's be honest though, if a company can make money doing something they most likely will do it. It wouldn't matter if you paid $100,000 a month to use windows, if they could make an extra $1000 selling your personal information and pushing ads at you they will.
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I beg to disagree. I remember a golden age when cable tv was known to be better because it didn’t have any ads. Slowly they became as ad infested as open channels.
What are you talking about? cable TV has always had ads in the very beginning in the 1950s and 60s on through the 1970s when the first cable TV stations came out.
My household was a subscriber in those early days and I remember the concern that ads were coming. I remember that they started by putting the ads between shows and only advertising upcoming shows on that channel. Then it moved to general ads about shows on that channel, then to ads about shows on other channels. At that point I knew the cause was lost and sure enough soon it was normal TV ads interrupting shows.
Here is a newspaper article from around that time asking how much longer cable TV will be ad free
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/26/arts/will-cable-tv-be-inv...
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Duckduckgo does not. Hacker News does not. There are many examples. Ads on blogs such as Daring Fireball and Coding Horror do not. I gladly whitelist these sites.
Do Hacker News and Daring Fireball have ad platforms?
I don't care if you can turn it off, if ad revenue is now meaningful enough to MS that it will be interleaved throughout the OS then it's now a non-option for me.