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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by autoexec on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:54PM (#18471884)
> . If you were willing to pay > $1000 for software and services there was no reason for companies to maintain an Ad business.

Let's be honest though, if a company can make money doing something they most likely will do it. It wouldn't matter if you paid $100,000 a month to use windows, if they could make an extra $1000 selling your personal information and pushing ads at you they will.

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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by ovao on Friday November 16, 2018 @04:27PM (#18472114)
If that were truly the case, wouldn’t Apple and Canonical be doing exactly that?
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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by dsego on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:16PM (#18472394)
Except Canonical was doing exactly that with amazon ads in the launcher.
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Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10 by autoexec on Friday November 16, 2018 @05:22PM (#18472437)
Ubuntu did infest their OS with ads (via amazon). Last I checked they still did but backlash caused them to disable it by default. I can't speak to apple's data collection and ad practices but I'm guessing they've been doing some form of both.
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