Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows

Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by isostatic on Monday September 30, 2019 @06:07AM (#21113392)

> As someone in another thread mentioned, it's because the marketing budgets are way bigger than what people would, or even could, pay.

This makes no sense. Someone paying £43 a month for Sky TV in the UK is only worth another £5 a month in adverts. Maybe that works out fine, but I don't pay for Sky because of this. London Underground brainwashes millions of people every day. They spend £4.50 on a ticket, but TFL want an extra 15p from advert income. Passengers then spend the cost of that advertising and then some on products they see being advertised, a cost they wouldn't have born without the adverts.

Some businesses may make the bulk of their money from advertising other companies, but most don't.

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Re:Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option wh... by tripzilch on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:14AM (#21114981)

I'm not sure about your examples, they don't seem to be on line data harvesting tracking ads, monetizing consumers of software or content. Maybe I'm missing the analogy here.

Anyway, it was this comment, they explained the idea better than I did maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20988742

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