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

Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pmiller2 on Saturday March 18, 2017 @08:58PM (#13904475)

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

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pikzen on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:00PM (#13904487)

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.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by ericd on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:08PM (#13904518)

I'm using 16.04 right now, how does one trigger those? I've never seen them.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by pikzen on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:10PM (#13904525)

I was wrong, it was actually in the 12.04 days. Didn't remember it to be so long ago. I believe it's disabled by default in newer releases.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by aban on Saturday March 18, 2017 @09:38PM (#13904640)

It was indeed 12.04 and only affecting Unity (Canonical's Desktop Environment), not other DE's like GNOME or KDE.

You should check out https://fixubuntu.com nonetheless, which surfaced at that time, is still up and relevant.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by ericd on Sunday March 19, 2017 @08:38AM (#13906723)

Ah that's good that they seem to have come to their senses.

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