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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by rsanheim on Monday October 24, 2022 @01:42PM (#33319840)
Wow. I think your reply demonstrates the crux of the issue perfectly. I can't tell if its satire or not.

It is insane that this level of workaround and hacks is required to avoid advertising and crapware on a £500+ _television_. Normal people have almost no hope for a good experience when you consider something like a Lenovo laptop from the OP.

You have the manufacture-installed adware, windows 10 + edge nonsense constantly nagging you, and then there is just the state of the web itself. Its all just too much.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by ghostbrainalpha on Monday October 24, 2022 @02:07PM (#33320190)
It's not a joke. Remember you are still on "Hacker News".

A lot of us love this stuff, irony acknowledged.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by unethical_ban on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:52PM (#33322545)
It should be a joke, though.

It's one thing to hack for fun or to find new uses for hardware and software. It's another to live in a world where we purchase devices for hundreds of dollars, only to have a bait-and-switch on the software and suddenly we get ads on our splash page and a slower UI.

I'm glad there are workarounds, but they _shouldn't be needed_.

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by qikInNdOutReply on Monday October 24, 2022 @03:16PM (#33321115)
Dystopian capitalism, living the scream.
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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by api on Monday October 24, 2022 @08:17PM (#33324488)
The thing that amazes me is the sheer amount of money that seems to be in advertising. It’s sometimes more profitable to surveil or shoehorn in ads than to sell products.

Could this be somehow related to two decades of cheap money and the bloated corporate budgets it created?

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Re:I help seniors with technology issues. A regular came in ... by cheq on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:00PM (#33336125)
It works, there wouldn't be so much advertising without the gains. Of course in this process lots of companies and business, amateurs in advertising, loose money, and of course big companies try new stuff everytime and they loose money too. I'm a marketer and I really feel the ad sector is like a disservice to humanity, trowing money to the script driven money factory when lots of people can't even eat every day.
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