I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"
Nope, not malware. Just Windows.
https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png
https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
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Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#32Good, people should be pushed away from Chrome as strongly as possible given what Google is doing to it.
How long until pop-ups appear on Ubuntu that say "Ditch Chrome, use Firefox (snap version)"
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#33I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway" Nope, not malware. Just Windows. https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...
> I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway"
By my exp, I'd wager it was a third party using Windows' baked-in nag system, via Chrome.
That is, you've got a bit of crapware in Chrome that is sending notifications and Chrome cheerfully forwards them to Windows. I see this on customer systems with some regularity.
Degrading a user's experience seems to be one place where MS and Google are happy to cooperate.
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#34Virtually infinite noise. While I hate setting up Windows while I feel they are the owner of my physical device (e.g. cannot start the device if I don't know how to proceed with the hidden option of not having a Microsoft account), this is a practice that every vendor is having nowadays with some little differences. It is time to add real pressure to these vendors.
The pressure should take into account the power in the hands of these vendors: it is not the same if Google is using dark patterns than if they are used by a small site. Both are wrong but big tech has a completely different advantage.
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#35As disgusting as Apple’s ads to sell sell Apple Fitness + all over the OS or Google’s pops on Firefox all over their products to install Chrome. All big companies do it.
I haven't had a single ad on any of my Apple stuff other than a free trial of apple news for 3 months which I declined and was never asked again. Where are you seeing that?
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#36I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway" Nope, not malware. Just Windows. https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...
First party malware.
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#37... but windows is malware
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#38I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway" Nope, not malware. Just Windows. https://i.imgur.com/xVstzqc.png https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/15u6gx8/windows_...
> I got a Windows Notification the other day while playing a game telling me about a "Grand prize giveaway" By my exp, I'd wager it was a third party using Windows' baked-in nag system, via Chrome. That is, you've got a bit of crapware in Chrome that is sending notifications and Chrome cheerfully forwards them to Windows. I see this on customer systems with some regularity. Degrading a user's experience seems to be o…
No, it was a Microsoft Rewards promotion. Something I don’t recall opting into.
https://promos.microsoftrewards.com/US/en/SS/88/rules
Edit: Chrome isn’t even installed, I use Firefox.
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#39Windows, the Lada of operating systems. I had to try and get my wife's laptop working with the VPN the other day. Worked fine on Mac and Linux, but on Windows, I had to uninstall a load of drivers and then do a registry hack. What a pile of shite.
I don't know what you tried to install, but in my experience installing stuff on Windows is way more easy and error-free than on Linux systems.
Re: Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
#40... but windows is malware
The sooner people move away from windows the better.
But I reckon most will tag along all the way into the cloud, and lose ownership of their own content.