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Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

speeder wrote: post #5

Then when I point out this sort of shit to explain why I insist in keeping Win7, people say I am nuts and that Win10 is fine.

Windows 7 is a fine OS if you don't connect it to the Internet, but it's basically screaming "hack me" everywhere you go online.

A few occasional mild annoyances from the marketing team is worth tolerating for a reasonably secure operating system. I'd argue people who feel otherwise need to reprioritize their risks.

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by rocky1138 »

Macha wrote: post #8

I'm sick of tech companies giving the only way to decline their preferred approach as "maybe later". No, I'm sure I don't want Bing or Edge next month either. If I change my mind I'm perfectly capable of finding the setting and even if I wasn't I'm sure it's only a DDG (or Bing I guess) search away to docs I'm almost certain you will have

The most egrigious offender was the Google+ and YouTube integration. https://johnrockefeller.net/google/

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by reincarnate0x14 »

If you are forced to put up with Windows, do yourself a favor and use LSTC. Almost all of this garbage behavior seems to be restricted to the retail channel builds and major update packs.

Sadly there is apparently no limit to what people will be conditioned to put up with.

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by 7373737373 »

speeder wrote: post #5

Then when I point out this sort of shit to explain why I insist in keeping Win7, people say I am nuts and that Win10 is fine.

Good choice, the Windows 10 UI and UX are complete trash. I'm not sure who at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to use this kind of tablet interface even on non-tablet devices. Many times, when you want to change a setting, first you are presented with this flat useless UI, so you almost always have to go to the original one anyway. The look and feel is completely inconsistent and unintuitive. The notifications suck. The Edge bullshit sucks. The update mechanism sucks and wastes the precious lifetime and work of millions of people. I don't want my computer to take hours to install and restart a thousand times while I'm unable to use it. Cortana is useless, search is slow, I don't want a "dynamic", "fancy" animated interface, I don't want changing lockscreen pictures, I want immediate feedback when I click anywhere. Whoever directed this should be fired.

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

#17

Post by v0x »

blibble wrote: post #13

LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you) no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for 18 months now without issue aliexpress has an excellent range of grey market keys...

Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by blibble »

v0x wrote: post #17
blibble wrote: post #13

LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you) no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for 18 months now without issue aliexpress has an excellent range of grey market keys...

Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.

no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

v0x wrote: post #17
blibble wrote: post #13

LTSC is the answer (despite what MS "advocates" will tell you) no autoreboot, no MS store, no onedrive, no ads I've had a legitimate copy on my gaming pc for 18 months now without issue aliexpress has an excellent range of grey market keys...

Why use LTSC over, say, Pro? Genuinely curious. I have been running 16299 on Pro since about when it came out. I would be running win2k if drivers, etc were updated for it.

LTSC/LTSB doesn’t have the Windows App Store - and to my knowledge you can’t install it either. Pro cones with the App Store and to my knowledge you can’t uninstall it.

Re: Windows 10 nagging users with Bing advertisements (push alerts)

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Post by sunsipples »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #11
speeder wrote: post #5

Then when I point out this sort of shit to explain why I insist in keeping Win7, people say I am nuts and that Win10 is fine.

Windows 7 is a fine OS if you don't connect it to the Internet, but it's basically screaming "hack me" everywhere you go online. A few occasional mild annoyances from the marketing team is worth tolerating for a reasonably secure operating system. I'd argue people who feel otherwise need to reprioritize their risks.

Genuinely interested, why would Win7 be worse than Win10 if you had the same network setup, same browser (same extensions) and behaved the same as you do with Win10?

I ask as even at home, my different devices all use the same browser/extensions, VPN and browsing habits. I use established FOSS where possible and the only problems I have had since Windows 98 are from data breaches (nothing I could have prevented with different OS/software).

Or are we talking about business/corp usage?

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