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Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by digi_owl »

AndrewHMoore wrote: post #20
csdreamer7 wrote: post #6

> how to turn them off Switch to Linux. Windows 10 Home is now $119 and tracks you. Microsoft is trying to sell you a product and monetize your behavior. They are pursuing a way to maintain their cash cow and have an avenue to push Google out.

I agree. To be honest I'm not even angry at Microsoft, just very disappointed and surprised. Windows 7 is a technological marvel in my eyes - it's stable and dependable with amazing backwards comparability. How many millions* of man-hours of productivity has it enabled I wonder? How can Microsoft be so quick to burn decades of credibility and trust? I switched my very very non-technically savvy parents to Ubuntu seve…

MS used to treat home and soho users as a smaller cousin of their enterprise ones, but in recent years they seem to have developed a hard mental split between home/soho and enterprise.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by digi_owl »

kefka wrote: post #30
djsumdog wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a primary Linux box, but my Windows box is still used for games. For the PC gamer, the indie game market on Linux is growing, but it's still not the same as the Windows market. Microsoft had one of the last minimal-bloat systems up until Windows 10. I don't want to enter a world where we need to start ad-blocking the entire OS via custom DNS servers. Microsoft is still making money of the initial OS license wi…

And I seem to remember when Microsoft squeezed out the market of accelerated sound cards, like SoundBlaster Live. It effectively killed their audio market overnight, with the fact that everything had to go over their DRM stack. We could have had machines with DSPs for sound, GPUs for accelerated array math, and general purpose CPUs for everything else. But MS decided that for us... Even though us Linux people can use…

I wonder how much of that had to do with the MAFIAA...

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by pmiller2 »

dc3k wrote: post #40
grawlinson wrote: post #2

Here's a better idea - show Microsoft that you don't accept this type of behaviour by switching products/services. I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.

> trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs. Last time I used Linux (well, Ubuntu specifically) every time I searched for anything in the file system I would see at least half a dozen ads for products on Amazon. Significantly worse than anything I've ever seen in Windows 10 personally. Uni…

Really? I've never seen that. Is it under GNOME in the default install?

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by LeoPanthera »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #46

Serious question: does MS sell a version of Window 10 outright that doesn't include all of the snooping? I've been a Windows user my whole life but I will NEVER use an OS that collects data on the OS level.

The LTSB edition is supposed to be this version, except it still includes the ads for OneDrive, so who knows what they're doing.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by pikzen »

pmiller2 wrote: post #44
dc3k wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs. Last time I used Linux (well, Ubuntu specifically) every time I searched for anything in the file system I would see at least half a dozen ads for products on Amazon. Significantly worse than anything I've ever seen in Windows 10 personally. Uni…

Really? I've never seen that. Is it under GNOME in the default install?

It was in one of Ubuntu's releases, 16.04 I believe? Unity included Amazon results in its search results.

EDIT: 12.04. Time flies. Memory sucks.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by alistproducer2 »

AndrewHMoore wrote: post #20
csdreamer7 wrote: post #6

> how to turn them off Switch to Linux. Windows 10 Home is now $119 and tracks you. Microsoft is trying to sell you a product and monetize your behavior. They are pursuing a way to maintain their cash cow and have an avenue to push Google out.

I agree. To be honest I'm not even angry at Microsoft, just very disappointed and surprised. Windows 7 is a technological marvel in my eyes - it's stable and dependable with amazing backwards comparability. How many millions* of man-hours of productivity has it enabled I wonder? How can Microsoft be so quick to burn decades of credibility and trust? I switched my very very non-technically savvy parents to Ubuntu seve…

I second this. I avoided W7 for so long because after the ME and Vista debacles, I just wanted a stable system and figured W7 was just more of the same. I was so wrong. W7 is an awesome OS.

Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

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Post by ajmurmann »

besselheim wrote: post #43

Doesn't seem that big a deal, it's an upsell for Microsoft's own file synchronization services, not some third party ad. And you can easily disable it.

Good point! I only use Windows for Steam. So I haven't seen this in person. Is it that different from iOS constantly trying to get me to create a iCloud account? That also costs money if you need more space.
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