Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
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Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
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Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#2I got served malware on APNews.com from an ad. Twice... from the Associated Press Website. And thats when I regretfuly had to turn on my adblocker there.
Now hopefully they aren't 3rd party JavaScript ads (yet), but I still dont like the security implications of this.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#3It's important to me the distinction that it's ads for Microsoft services. I dislike that as much as anyone else who hates ads, but it is distinctly different than just general advertising.
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#5It's important to me the distinction that it's ads for Microsoft services. I dislike that as much as anyone else who hates ads, but it is distinctly different than just general advertising.
It is still mental and visual pollution. I switched from Windows to MacOS 2 years ago after being a long Windows holdout and damn, MacOS is nice and the Mx series of CPUs/GPUs are also incredibly fine.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#6It's important to me the distinction that it's ads for Microsoft services. I dislike that as much as anyone else who hates ads, but it is distinctly different than just general advertising.
It is still mental and visual pollution. I switched from Windows to MacOS 2 years ago after being a long Windows holdout and damn, MacOS is nice and the Mx series of CPUs/GPUs are also incredibly fine.
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Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#7It's important to me the distinction that it's ads for Microsoft services. I dislike that as much as anyone else who hates ads, but it is distinctly different than just general advertising.
It is still mental and visual pollution. I switched from Windows to MacOS 2 years ago after being a long Windows holdout and damn, MacOS is nice and the Mx series of CPUs/GPUs are also incredibly fine.
I agree about the mental and visual pollution.
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#9To anyone who hasn't I highly encourage setting up PiHole. Great for reducing the severity of these sorts of things, and helps to sanitize and clean up your internet.
Don't need to buy a Pi either, it can run on a laptop or desktop just fine.
It's great for catching anything that can't be by an in-browser adblocker, like in the OS or on other devices.
Re: Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu
#10The only reason I use Windows in 2023 is for video gaming. Every other non-gaming PC I own is running Linux.
Windows has become inferior to Linux in every other way. More upgrade headaches, worse resource utilization, worse desktop environment, more crashes, data collection, and now embedded ads.
These technology companies have really demonstrated over the past few decades that they are unable to maintain reliable products over the long term. Every piece of good software (and even hardware in many cases) degrades almost immediately into an inferior product due to laziness and greed.
These companies would rather destroy their flagship products chasing the smallest prospect of extra revenue, than leave what works alone and innovate on something new.