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Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by H0n3sty »

userbinator wrote: post #330

Does anyone find it unpleasant how these new OSs are increasingly embedding online content everywhere, presumably opening many network connections and using bandwidth while increasing attack area unnecessarily? The start screen tiles in Win8, which continue into Win10's start menu, are the most obvious example here. It isn't that I hate the Internet or anything like that; I've certainly spent long hours online visiti…

Yes! As Windows moves closer to an ad-supported model it's only going to get worse. All the bloatware was bad enough, adware is taking the abuse of OS users to a new level.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by paler »

ferrari8608 wrote: post #308
paler wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm happy to hear that gaming works well, and apparently my decidedly older CPU (AMD Phenom X4 965) supports the technology as well, which is interesting to learn. However, my main reason for needing Windows is for music recording and mixing via Cubase and other DAW software. This requires really low-latency access to my USB and PCI sound cards. Does anyone have experience with running applications like this in a VM?…

Really, the 965 supports it? I have the 970 and was under the impression the Phenom II's in general just don't support it. Can you show me where you found that information?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardw...

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by [deleted] »

gargravarr wrote: post #6

Seems like the only way people want to make money these days is through invasive advertising without the end-user's explicit consent. Granted the expectation of free software is driving most of this, but it starts a vicious cycle because those who get annoyed with them develop countermeasures, which the creator responds to with more aggressive ads, ad infinitum. It does start explaining some of the highly controversi…

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Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by sp4ke »

SeriousM wrote: post #238
sp4ke wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Holly crap, I always dreamed to achieve what you did and never knew direct GPU access was possible, even though I used Qemu for work before. Right now I am basically running a windows pc for gaming and a linux laptop for work. It seems IOMMU is compatible with all my gaming tower, and with many modern cpus/chipsets. I will make a test over a live CD anb if it works migrate my whole pc and blog about it. Thanks very m…

What's your blog url?

Here: https://medium.com/@ChakibBenz

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by zamalek »

dang wrote: post #121
MajesticHobo wrote: post #2

Direct link to HTG guide: http://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-w...

We changed the URL to that from https://mobile.twitter.com/howtogeek/status/7022751534394163... , which points to it. If someone suggests a better URL for this story, we can change it again.

Maybe change the title, too? It's absurdly inaccurate, just look at how all the comments here are completely unrepresentative of what is stipulated in the article, everyone has read only the title and assumes:

* Ads are popping up on the desktop ("full-screen"). Which they are not - it is restricted to the lock screen. Neither the tweet nor the article mentions "full-screen" once.

* You can't opt-out of this process. The central point of the entire article is how to opt-out.

* This is new. I personally opted out of this feature a while back.

Possibly something like: "Windows is Showing Lock-Screen Ads (How to Opt-Out)". As per the guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

This post not only fails to adhere to the guidelines, it does the exact opposite by changing the meaning of the article entirely. It should actually be deleted and I have flagged it due to such a blatant disregard for the guidelines.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by zamalek »

Animats wrote: post #145

Can you buy an single enterprise version of Windows 10 without the ads and the snooping ("telemetry")? How much does it cost? How do you buy it? Microsoft makes this info very hard to find.[1] [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/WindowsForBusiness/windows-f...

As far as I know the W10 machine needs to be also joined to an AD domain for this to work (the telemetry is disabled via a group policy on the DC).

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by kbart »

smegel wrote: post #295

Maybe now the Year of the Linux Desktop has truly arrived.

At least for me - yes. Currently I'm using dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7. But when Win7 expires, no more Windows on my machine(s). There's no way I'm letting malware, called Windows 10, near my data.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by TheLogothete »

sp332 wrote: post #109
TheLogothete wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is the PC market shrinking? Do you mean that new shipments are declining? Because this is not the same thing AT ALL.

Total "PC" units are shrinking, and Windows PC sales are shrinking compared to Mac computer sales, and phones are exploding compared to PCs. What comparison could you make where Windows PC sales are "up"?

>Total "PC" units are shrinking

Yeah? Care to back this up with some data? Because I'm looking at a very expensive market research report which disagrees. Sales of new PCs are down, because people don't need a new computer every 2 years. This doesn't mean total PCs in usage are down.

Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads

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Post by redtuesday »

driverdan wrote: post #228
miffe wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried this a while back. My results can be seen at http://miffe.org/bench/ The largest problem is that the NVIDIA driver refuses to work when it detects that it's in a VM. The workaround is to hide the VM status for the guest os, by using -cpu host,kvm=off and disabling the tweaks that makes windows work better (hv_time,hv_relaxed,hv_vapic).

A better workaround would be to buy AMD GPUs.

I always wonder why they don't really advertise this to gamers as a feature at which they are better than nvidia.
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