What about the ads in the start menu? For candy crush or tiktok
Comment on apple users in a nutshell
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 11 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 11 months ago
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’ve never seen these before… can you share a screenshot? That sounds fucking awful!
dipshit@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Have you ever opened the start menu? There are ads there.
BigT54@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 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 11 months ago
Which they’ve only been doing for… checks watch…30 years.
Numerol@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Same,this starts to look like paranoia imo.
LucidLethargy@lemmy.world 11 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 11 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 11 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.