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Apple gives an OS away for free - users never see advertisements. Microsoft charges $100 for Windows 10, virtually every corner of the experience is riddled with advertisements and marketing crap.
And "search with google" keeps pushing you to safari https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17935301/how-to-force-ma...
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You have never had Candy Crush-esque apps installed automatically?
I really don't know everything that is installed on my computer - do you on yours? I can say I have never seen the thing. And anyway, surely that is a game, not an ad?
I'd go as far to say it is adware.
Just this week, I discovered that even after installing Python from the official website, if you happen to run a script that executes "python3" instead of "python", you'll instead trigger an unhelpful link to the Microsoft Store suggesting to install python from there. Yes, the command line itself has ads for the store sprinkled throughout it. Later, when I needed to pull down the Rust compiler, I discovered that the…
if you happen to run a script that executes "python3" Funny thing is, this is actually wrong on Windows and always has been. Unless I'm missing something. I recently traced back the earliest python3 installer on the official ftp site of python.org and even that one didn't have a python3 command. No official installers seem to have had it. Nor does an Anaconda install. So I don't really know why the 'official' (that i…
No clue why the standard non-app store installer doesn't add python3 to the path to mimic this behavior.
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Can you walk me through how you're reading that? I don't understand how you have reached that conclusion.
From the article: > "the pop-up will appear even when Microsoft Edge is the default browser... The company is not targeting people who use Google Chrome and Firefox as default browsers." Translation: it will show up for everyone, not just for Chrome and Firefox users.
The former part seems to imply to me that you get this suggestion even if you've already used the feature.
The are a number of Windows settings for turning off what it calls "suggestions". Do a search in the Settings app for "suggest", click "Show all results" and see what comes up. Amongst them are: * Show suggestions occasionally in Start * Show suggestions in your timeline * Suggest ways I can finish setting up my device to get the most out of Windows * Get tips, tricks and suggestions as you use Windows * Turn off sug…
Imagine paying money for an os and having to go through this song and dance to not have your productivity tool become an ad infested unproductivity tool
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Remember, you're paying money for this treatment. Reminds me of cable TV, honestly.
It's interesting. Lots of people pay and put up with ads for the convenience of cable TV. But I'll happily pay and memorize where my shows are to enjoy Netflix, Hulu and one or two other streaming apps so I can avoid ads but still enjoy my shows (though for network shows, there's often a waiting period before I get to watch them). There, the price difference per month was one of the driving factors. With my PC, I cou…
I have even worked on .net core projects with vs code and run SQL server in a docker container.
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Really where? I’ve never heard of adverts on a MacBook for their hardware at all. Only one is for iCloud and that’s if you got their 5GB limit. Other services for when launch the app for the first time and safari for when you use a browser for the first time that’s not safari.
* When I buy a new Macbook or upgrade the OS, I get a "walkthrough" of new features which tends to include integration with other Apple devices. * Most Apple apps (e.g. Home, Messages, Photos, Maps, Podcasts, FindMy) advertise their integration with other Apple hardware. * Only pre-installed browser is Safari, and the homepage is apple.com. They might not be blatant, but I'd highly surprised if the marketing departme…
And not macOS, but in iOS they've had a giant row offering an Apple Arcade subscription trial at the top of Settings for a while
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Can you walk me through how you're reading that? I don't understand how you have reached that conclusion.
Sure. I think the key to my interpretation is "even when". > the pop-up will appear *even when* Microsoft Edge is the default browser "Even when" says to me that this scenario is in addition to some other scenario, which must inevitably be when Edge isn't the default browser.
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Does OSX do this with the xcode tools?
Yes, and as a linux admin and user who is stuck on MacOS for work, it drives me absolutely nuts, even more so when people defend apple or microsoft with justifications that the other does it. They both suck.
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> Example being that you MUST use chrome webview when using the google search app. On my Pixel, when I start a search from the home screen, and then click on a result, it opens that page in Firefox.
How did you get it to do that? I have a Pixel 4a, but the Google app will only open results in a Chrome webview, even when I use Firefox or Brave as my default browser everywhere else. I don't use the Pixel launcher if that matters. I would actually like to fix it. Edit: I figured it out. I'm not allowed to uninstall Chrome, but disabling it made it finally use Brave as a fallback. So they actually implement using wh…