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Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by rolenthedeep »

Apreche wrote: post #28

On the fresh install of Windows I do see some ads and ad-adjacent things. But once I disable all of them, that's it. No more. I haven't seen anything at all like this since install day a couple years back. My guess is that people aren't going through and disabling everything. Also, people aren't using piholes which are probably blocking everything that can't be disabled.

Disabling them isn't the solution, an OS shouldn't have ads

Because you can technically disable them for a period of time doesn't make it any less unacceptable.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by chungy »

jdlyga wrote: post #4

Windows 11 has already lost the marketing battle. They should have kept the version number at 10 and gone with a "ui refresh" update. People aren't going to switch until Windows 12 is released.

By the time Windows 12 is released, you'll see legions of Windows fans clamoring to keep 11 at all costs. They'll also add it to the chart as one of the "good" ones.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by rolenthedeep »

causality0 wrote: post #102

Remember when you got excited to install the new version of Windows?

I remember staying up super late on a school night frantically refreshing the windows 7 beta page. IIRC, they only let a limited number of people download a copy, and I just managed to snag one before they ran out.

That was the last time that windows caused me anything approaching joy.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by nice_byte »

JohnFen wrote: post #82
nice_byte wrote: post #42

from the title, I thought these would be ads for third-party products. it actually is just prodding to install/use ms's own stuff, so it's a nothingburger.

Ads are ads. It doesn't matter if they're for third party products or not.

I don't see anyone throwing a hissy fit about the "finish setting up your iPhone" prompts. I also don't see anyone worried that you can't uninstall YouTube or chrome from your pixel phone. However, here I see MS getting flak for something every other company has already been doing for a long time.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by nice_byte »

pkilgore wrote: post #85

How outrageous! Let me close the Apple Music window for this App I can't uninstall, and that popup that says I can't save my notes unless I have iCloud, and look past the automatically included Apple News and Apple Financed widgets in the notification panel I accidentally opened to go open a browser that defaults to showing me the shortcuts for several third party companies whose services I do not use to get on the i…

Yup. I don't understand why people choose to rag on Microsoft when literally everyone else who has something to sell you besides the OS itself, does this. Maybe it's because Windows is from the era when MS was not a services company, and people, by force of inertia, expect windows to continue behaving as if MS is not a services company.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by JohnFen »

nice_byte wrote: post #124
JohnFen wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ads are ads. It doesn't matter if they're for third party products or not.

I don't see anyone throwing a hissy fit about the "finish setting up your iPhone" prompts. I also don't see anyone worried that you can't uninstall YouTube or chrome from your pixel phone. However, here I see MS getting flak for something every other company has already been doing for a long time.

I can't speak to iPhones, but people have been complaining about preinstalled apps that you can't uninstall on Android phones for a very, very long time.

> I see MS getting flak for something every other company has already been doing for a long time.

Yes, but every other company gets flak for it, too. They're just not the topic of this particular thread.

Re: Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu

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Post by hu3 »

capableweb wrote: post #8

Great, I just updated to Windows 11 in hope of getting WSL2 + Arch Linux + CUDA + Docker but it didn't pan out in the end, had to move back to proper Linux for that piece of work. But seems I'm stuck with Windows 11 now and additionally, the running applications that show up in the taskbar suddenly can only show icons, no text allowed. I started to regret my decision to upgrade, and this just adds insult to injury.

This reverts Windows 11 back to taskbar sanity from Windows 7/10 era and gets rid of ads as a bonus:

https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher

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