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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by orev on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:10PM (#35547730)
For almost every one of those pop ups, you can click on it, step through the dialog, then cancel the setup and it will clear the badge and not nag you anymore.

I agree it is getting irritating on IOS, but on Windows they’re now using things like alert badges on the battery charging status icon, the security status icon, etc. for stuff like “alerting” that you haven’t signed up for cloud backups and somehow this is an urgent security concern.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by croutonwagon on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:27PM (#35547913)
> For almost every one of those pop ups, you can click on it, step through the dialog, then cancel the setup and it will clear the badge and not nag you anymore.

Until the next update.

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