Submitted 1 year ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3405817
Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
That would be the Xbox app sending you a notification/advertisement, not Windows itself
It might as well be. It’s a Windows app made by Microsoft specifically for Windows and comes preinstalled. IIRC, you can’t even fully uninstall the xbox bits without powershell or regedit.
Uninstalling the 3 or so Xbox apps was the first reason for me to work with powershell.
Only the shortcut to the app was preinstalled on the build I put together a couple of months ago. When I tried to open it, it had to download and install first. Also, if you press Win+G to open the Game Bar and click the settings gear, under Notifications you can select “Hide notifications when I’m playing a fullscreen game”.
This is how I remember windows yes. Pop-ups, disruptions, annoyances, and ads.
People think it’s normal until they try Pop OS.
Or any linux distro for that matter ? I been using ubuntu and then moved to mint , customised them a bit and they are perfect now
I just bought myself one of those mini PCs and I’m thinking of putting in a Linux distro.
I’ve only ever used Ubuntu, would you recommend mint to me?
literally only when you install it. i haven’t had any of this stuff in over 3 years
Just installed Pop on my new (refurb) laptop. I like it quite a lot. If games were as easy as on windows I’d probably run it on my desktop as well.
Aren’t they? I just use steam and it works. Most games are great on Linux these days. Just need to check Protondb for each game.
This is the way. Do it on your phones, tablets, computers, etc., then set reminder on your to do list to check important apps once a week. My personal email can be checked one day a week and my work email when I come in, lunch, and before I leave. I don’t need a popup on my phone, watch, Alexa, car, and toaster every time amazon wants me to share my experience with a product. Notifications murder my ability to focus.
Break the
Beautiful words. I shed a tear.
The writers strike is working!
Why are you getting these? I’ve never once had an ad on my machine, and I run Windows 11.
On ios one of my peeves is the default permissions for notifications is all on.
I immediately rescind the privileges of any app that shows me an ad, but it’s still annoying that they get even that once chance.
I don’t get these on my Windows PCs. But I did turn off a few settings, installed Open Shell for the Win7 style start menu, and Explorer Patcher to fix Win11’s stupid task bar changes.
You shouldn’t have to do all of that.
Right, but it makes my work laptop more tolerable at least.
May be related to location (Europe/Germany). I haven’t gotten any ads in Microsoft beyond what I am already subscribed to (office365) anyway.
I only turned off advertising ID and I never get any ads on the Pro version.
If i recall you can disable the whole notification center…
Ive yet to see anything like that on my pc
And this is why I switched to Linux mint. I fucking despise advertisements.
I’m still hanging on to Windows 10 for as long as it lasts. My next OS will absolutely be Linux Mint.
If you can Install Ubuntu and use Windows on a VirtualBox as a guest.
Non-techy colleagues cannot tell whether it’s a virtualized OS or not.
Chances are OP's IT department wouldn't be too keen on that.
One can directly install ubuntu on hyper-v, without any additional 3rd party tools. They just need hyper-v enabled (it’s installed by default). It’s not user friendly, it’s the usual gui mess as one could expect from a ms product. But at least it’s preinstalled, which is convenient for a work laptop.
Weather security department would allow this… It’s another story
Could explain this to me as if I was 5. I have no idea what I am supposed to mildly infuriated about
Unsolicited advertising in a paid operating system.
Almost as infuriating as ads coming over the Life Alert system.
You know those ads with the old lady like “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!”. Little radio thing you wear around your neck to act as emergency channel to contact someone if you’re stuck somewhere.
Well, somebody decided old people with a comm device around their neck would make a great marketing segment for targeted ads. Through the fucking safety device.
Well, ever since Win8 or Win10 I stopped having much sympathy with Windows users. They deserve things like that, when they still remain on that ship. Since these things are being introduced in small portions (salami tactics), the users will slowly become familiar with these things and just accept them because they can’t change anything anyway, thus slowly incorporating a defeatist’s attitude towards all the bloat, ads and spying. AKA, learned helplessness. In a couple of years, Windows will be absolutely horrible, but people will be used to it. I’ll just say this: Windows used to NOT have this kind of crap integrated.
He’s obviously forced to use it for work
That is a very childish thing to say. Windows has A LOT of problems. But it easy to use. Linux is still a tehnical operating system. And not everyone has the time or the know how to use it. And I use both. Plus, the majority of laptops and pcs come with windows, and installing Linux is not that simple. It will be at least 10 years before it becomes a somewhat widely used OS, with the younger generations being more used to tehnology in general.
I got the same popup but I had run it a few weeks earlier.
Poor tech plebs that have to put up with this absolute shite.
I think more people would try Linux if it wasn’t for the superiority complexes of people that type comments like this in every. fuckin. thread…
No no, gotta flex on the "plebs", what a useful contribution to society..
I definitely do have a superiority complex after spending years fixing printer drivers on windows for absolute Luddites.
Ikr?! Shame that “Linux is to hard and can’t play games”. It’s not like installing any distro of Linux is super hard. Or Proton is built into Steam and sometimes Runs Windows games better than Windows does or anything… Or that the vast majority of applications people use are web browsers anyway
Another infuriating ad came from clipchamp
We are in 2023 and everyone has a powerful enough CPU/GPU, why would I need to upload all my videos in the cloud to edit 720p video…
That’s how you get uninstalled.
There is a far greener country where such things are unheard of.
Man, I sure am enjoying PopOS.
Okay but now you yourself just posted an ad on this website. You should have atleast blurred the product If you’re gonna complain about advertising
That game was meh
red@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
You can uninstall the Xbox app
yukichigai@kbin.social 1 year ago
They forgot to remove game mode and a bunch of the built-in advertisement stuff from the workstation images they were using a while back, and I work for state government.
CarnivorousCouch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve also worked in state government. I am both surprised and not surprised to hear this.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
If they uninstalled the xbox app they’d have no way of coordinating their sea of thieves matches with the employees that work on a console
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Incidentally this makes me want to put the following plot into a sitcom: