What about the ads in the start menu? For candy crush or tiktok
Comment on apple users in a nutshell
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months agoI’ve never seen a single ad in windows. I keep hearing they are coming… But so far it’s just a few predatory practices failing to convince me to use their stupid browser.
Rez@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve never seen these before… can you share a screenshot? That sounds fucking awful!
dipshit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s your secret? One quick way to see ads is to click on the weather in the bottom right corner. I have done all of these things but, like the commenters in that link have mentioned, none of them work.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can just right click on the task bar and turn that feature off… I’ve done it in close to 1000 Windows machines at this point.
dipshit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Windows updates bring it back. I’ve done it again for now. But as you have comfirmed, there are ads in windows 10.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you open up the app store, there are ads… Pretty sure Apple has some integrated “news and interests” equivalent feature that also serves ads.
xts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Have you ever opened the start menu? There are ads there.
BigT54@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just did and I have no idea what you’re talking about. All I see are my pinned apps and recently used files.
xts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sure you have the options disabled that show this kind of stuff but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Anyone who is not tech savvy (99% of the population) will have no clue how to turn this stuff off or that it’s even an option.
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
haha WHOA, that SUCKS.
I’ve never had that, though… not on my Windows machines (plural). Did you buy your machine from a manufacturer like HP? It just feels like something HP would do… never buy HP anything, everyone (even if this specific event isn’t their fault).
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That sounds horrible… I’ve never seen these, though. I don’t use anything special so far as I know. I’m on Windows 10 on one computer I run all day, and Windows 11 for the one I use all evening.
Assuming you’re not making this up, could Microsoft be rolling these out only to specific individuals for a trial run, or something? I don’t even have Windows Pro…
Or… actually… I built my computer from the ground up. Did you buy yours from HP, Dell, or another manufacturer? Could THEY be putting ads into their updates somehow?
Dimpships@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Which they’ve only been doing for… checks watch…30 years.
Numerol@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Same,this starts to look like paranoia imo.
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think it’s just Linux people trying to poison the well. I’m not even mad, haha.
But like, I’m not joining the lie, either.
dipshit@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you’ve managed to disable all ads on windows please share your setup and how you’ve managed that.
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about… what ads are you seeing? Where are they?
The only “ads” I see for windows come after updates in the form of “Would you like to use our “new” “EDGE” Browser?!” To which the options are “YES I WOULD FUCK YEAH” (size 40 font) and “no thanks” (size 8 font). I hate that, but it’s only happened once or twice so far.