Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by _boffin_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:57PM (#35546778)

Apple is doing the same thing, just more overtly. I find your comment a bit jumping on the bandwagon and lacking of thought.

Off the top of my head, apple has advertising for:

  - Stocks
  - Maps
  - iCloud that never stops pestering you.
  - AppStore
  - News

It looks like Apple may add ads into Podcasts and Books.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by tinus_hn on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:01PM (#35548890)

This is a common complaint but it is really not on the same level as advertising for trash like Candycrush.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by mardifoufs on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @08:22PM (#35549095)

Comparing those to having tiktok on your start menu without being able to remove it (like an Apple News notification, for example) is completely asinine. I use windows everyday and coming from LTSC, the ads on 11 have been very surprisingly gross. Which is a shame since I actually really like win11 a part from that. But I would take apple ads all day if I had a choice between the two.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by _boffin_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:49PM (#35549820)

I truthfully find them all a sickening distraction that attempts to steal my current context and thus, I really don’t distinguish between candy crush ads vs the apple ads as I find them all sickening.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by whatwhaaaaat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @10:57PM (#35550330)

I find the inability to distinguish from services like iCloud and one drive, services that supplement the os, to apps and adware like tiktok and candy crush, lacking of thought.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by _boffin_ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:44PM (#35550674)

I don't think you grasped what I said...

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by AraceliHarker on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @11:49PM (#35550704)

Finder doesn’t show ads, right? System Preferences doesn’t show iCloud ads, right? You don’t keep urging me to make Safari the default browser, right? Strictly speaking, macOS has an iCloud item in the Finder sidebar, but you can hide it, and you have to go through several layers of account settings to get to the iCloud settings in System Preferences. Safari only notifies you that Safari is recommended as the default browser when you first set up Chrome, but nothing after that. At least for macOS, they don’t display ads in prominent places over and over again like Microsoft does.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by Derbasti on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:44AM (#35551042)

After years of Windows, I just recently set up a new Mac. It was a breath of fresh air!

Windows has onedrive im the sidebar of the explorer, macos has icloud. On macos it's one toggle I'm settings, and it's gone. In windows, it's an undocumented registry setting, and an msconfig setting, and several nag screens, and it comes back after some OS upgrades.

Changing the default browser to Firefox, Windows still opens some links in Edge, with no way to change that. In macos, browser choice is a setting, and it is honored by the OS.

In general, there are tons of things that annoy me in both OSes, but in macos it's usually a simple preference toggle, where in windows it's some complicated, undocumented hack.

The kinds of things that I configure/fix after the install are different, too. In Windows, it's disabling junk that windows comes with, such as ads, nags, intrusive dumb defaults, etc. In macos it's generally adding things the OS doesn't come with, such as NTFS support, triple-tap/middle-click, window snapping.

As I said, macos is a breath of fresh air compared to the shitshow that is windows 11 (in this regard).

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by andybee on Thursday April 13, 2023 @05:33PM (#35562375)

Yeah, heard this before, most all learn to hate Macs after a little bit of time. A fresh of breath air is when you have a ton of control, MacOS is not really good at that. You have to do things a certain way and in particular purchase the right type of stuff and it's doesn't always work.

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