Don't be surprised if you see more invasive ads in the Windows 11 Start menu in the future.
  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Click bait avoided, a prerelease build of Windows suggests some kind of general advertising in the start menu beyond promoting ads.

    • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The article also calls this a “leak.” Is it really a leak if it’s in the insider Windows build that Microsoft makes freely available to anyone who wants it?

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Additionally, there has been an option in the settings menu since Windows 10 to disable Microsoft fucking with the start menu and settings “app” like this.

      I would be shocked if it doesn’t also handle whatever this shit is.

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Sounds like we need to start developing ad-blockers based directly within the OS.

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Or literally just use the existing option in the settings menu that has been there since Windows 10 to turn this shit off.

        All of this is clickbait.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
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          2 months ago

          Clicking a checkbox in a settings menu is so complicated, though!

          Simpler to install Linux, a whole new operating system, and try to figure out how to either run your Windows apps there or find new equivalent applications to use.

        • Zron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Imagine depending on a company giving you the privilege of turning off ads in the operating system you paid $100USD for.

          MS can get bent, I’m sick of advertising. Read the news, ads, watch any video without Adblock, ads, go out in public to enjoy a day out with my family, ads on every road and square foot of space. Now they want to put ads on the main menu of an operating system I only use to for relaxation and entertainment, but they were oh so kind to give me the option of turning them off for now. I’m not waiting for them to decide to remove the option, I’m going to remove myself from the equation.

          I already gave these greedy bastards my money, I just want some peace and quiet while I relax, but that’s too much to ask for these days.

          • Bizarroland@kbin.social
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            2 months ago

            Yep. It’s my goal to be as unprofitable a citizen for our corporate overlords as possible.

            I want them to lose money by doing business with me.

            I want them to go bankrupt so that their future replacements can learn from their mistakes and not repeat them.

            If they choose to be user hostile, I’ll match their energy and multiply it. Fuck em.

    • LimeWire@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s really upsetting seeing the internet transform into this commercialized capitalistic thing that used to be fun.

      Now I want to continue this by saying there are still communities and places that have kept true to the free and open internet and not all of it has been commercialized. And there are always fun and exciting projects happening, recently I’ve been looking at i2p, it’s similar to Tor but designed to be self contained and not for browsing the open web instead something called eepsites similar to onion sites.

      • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        ActivityPub gives me hope for the future of the Internet. I was able to completely replace Reddit with Lemmy after the exodus last year. I never used Twitter, but Mastodon seems like an alternative that’s gaining popularity.

        The one that seems the hardest to replace is YouTube, since hosting and serving video is very expensive, and many creators have come to rely on monitization.

        I’m not sure about I2P being an alternative to the clearnet. It helps prevent censorship, sure, but I don’t see how it provides anything that you can’t do on the clearnet already, other than anonymity. It’s also much harder to set up than Tor for non-tech savvy people. Anyone can already host any website they want on the clearnet.

        • LimeWire@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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          2 months ago

          ActivityPub really does feel like the future, or at least the one I hope for, it’s been very refreshing and exciting and it gives me much the same feeling as the internet did when I was new.

          Video does require a lot of storage unfortunately, and of course it makes sense that creators want money for what they often do. The closest would be that each creator or group setup their own PeerTube, however that comes with cost and administrating, which is not something most would want to do.

          I2P is definitely more complex. Unless I2P gets implemented on consumer routers I don’t see it becoming really popular, and most things on the internet do not need truly need anonymity even with VPN companies that like to advertise otherwise.

  • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Someone mentioned while I was gaming yesterday and we were discussing Windows 11 and he said “just get an add blocker” and it blew my mind. Like why support a company that thinks “this” is the future? When there are alternatives.

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Bro, you really should get an ad blocker.

      As for windows ads, every single one I’ve seen referenced so far can be disabled in under a minute by toggling a setting.

  • ShaunaTheDead@kbin.social
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    2 months ago

    Or just switch to Linux. It works flawlessly with everything except games that with anti-cheat that refuse to support it.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ha, this click bait article won’t snag me! I’ve been paying attention the past 4 years; there IS ALWAYS something worse on the horizon. Only a fool would suspect otherwise these days.